ioscan error on D210 running 11.0 EISA card

[paul courry]

On a D210, running 11.0 ioscan -fn has the following output

ba 3 20/5 eisa claimed BUS_NEXUS EISA Bus Adapter
unknown -1 20/5/1 error UNKNOWN EISA card
unknown -1 20/5/2 error UNKNOWN EISA card
unknown -1 20/5/3 error UNKNOWN EISA card

Now there ARE no EISA cards in the machine, just HSC cards. Why are we getting errors with respect to the EISA bus?

Thanks!

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Paul:

My quess would be that "in a former life" the server did in fact have an EISA card. The man pages for 'eisa_config' (1M) indicate that an EISA configuration is saved in non-volatile memory (NVM) and that when normally, intentionally configured, the kernel initializes the boards from this NVM content. Configuration information is also present in '/etc/eisa/system.sci' so I'd look for this too.

With regards, Jim.

...JRF...

[KapilRaj]

Hi paul,

As you had some EISA MUX Cards in your machine, you may have the device files of mux existing , please remove them.

/dev/mux*

Hope this kid's help will be appreciated,

Thanks

kaps

[KapilRaj]

hi Paul,

Did it work ?. Hv u tried ?. Awaiting for your reply.

kaps

[KapilRaj]

So paul,

It is working ?. Waiting for your updates

kaps

[Tim Clemens · Accepted solution]

Thanks all for the response. The EISA cards must have been present in the machine?s past life and, therefore, recorded in NVM. I ran eisa_config and issued a ?save? command. This saved the fact that there were no EISA cards to the machine?s NVM (and /etc/eisa/system.sci). After a reboot, the ioscan messages were gone.
Thanks again.

[paul courry]

We have a winner on table 7!

I am been working with Tim this past week to solve this problem and we got it. Running EISA_CONFIG and immediately saving the empty file does write to NVM and the config files, thus solving the problem. (g) This also obscurely documented in the man pages.

To all, Thanks!