02-13-2014
Old RS/6000 lost its mind
Some time ago I bought an old microchannel RS/6000 39H as a hobby toy. I mostly deal with newer Sun/Oracle equipment so I'm a bit out of my element.
The machine was running, AIX 4.1.3 I believe. Using it via IBM terminal. I stored it for what was apparently too long, and now it stalls out during built in testing.
I'm wondering if any IBM guys can help me solve this one.
Anyway, it dies out with flashing eights and I read out the error codes as 888-103-125-911-ccc-104-205-c09-888. I checked the old microchannel service documentation and I'm either not smart enough or am missing something as the codes didn't seem to translate correctly for me. I'm stuck.
I did all the obvious, reseated the boards, reseated the simms. checked the various power connections. My best guess is that it is some sort of memory issue.
If anybody has any insight I'd greatly appreciate it.
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ESS(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual ESS(4)
NAME
ess -- ESS Technology AudioDrive family audio device driver
SYNOPSIS
ess* at isapnp?
ess* at pnpbios? index ?
ess* at ofisa?
audio* at audiobus?
opl* at ess?
DESCRIPTION
The ess driver provides support for the ESS 1788, 1888, 1887, and 888 AudioDrive audio devices.
The AudioDrive 1788 is a half-duplex device, while the 1888, 1887, and 888 are full-duplex. All are capable of 8- and 16-bit audio sample
recording and playback at rates up to 44.1kHz.
The AudioDrive takes 16 I/O ports. The I/O port range, IRQ, and DRQ channels are set by the driver to the values specified in the configura-
tion file (or for isapnp, pnpbios, or ofisa, the values assigned from the firmware). The I/O port base must be one of 0x220, 0x230, 0x240,
0x250. The IRQ must be one of 5, 7, 9, 10 (or 15 on the 1887 only). The first DRQ channel must be selected from 0, 1, 3. The second DRQ chan-
nel (used for playback by the full-duplex 1888/1887, ignored by the 1788) can additionally be set to 5. If both DRQ channels are used they
must be different.
The joystick interface (if enabled) is handled by the joy(4) driver.
SEE ALSO
audio(4), isapnp(4), joy(4), ofisa(4), opl(4), pnpbios(4)
HISTORY
The ess device driver appeared in NetBSD 1.4.
BUGS
The AudioDrive devices have a SoundBlaster compatibility mode, and may be detected by the SoundBlaster driver (see sb(4)) rather than the
AudioDrive driver. The workaround is to remove the SoundBlaster driver from the kernel configuration.
BSD
June 22, 2005 BSD