EISA NVM is not internally consistent

[Vaclav Zelenka]

I have a problem with an EISA NVM on a HP B132L workstation. Sometimes it is not possible to boot the workstation, respectively it boots again and again with the warning messages in /etc/eisa/config.err (please see files from /etc/eisa and outputs from dmesg and ioscan in attachment). Sometimes the WS boots successfuly and everything normally works. It is probably a hardware problem with a NVM, but first I think about possibility to do something else that a hardware repairation (EISA reconfiguration?).
There is no EISA cards in that slot:

EISA 8/20/5 Bus Adapter
20/5/1 Unknown EISA card or empty slot

There is the same hardware on all the workstations of our WAN and others workstations are OK.


Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Vaclav

[Michael Lampi · Accepted solution]

Sounds like you have an intermittent failure in the NVM of the system's EISA bus adapter.

Have HP replace it or, if you do not have the system under maintenance, you could try removing the EISA driver from the kernel and rebuild the kernel. This will prevent the system from attempting to configure the EISA bus adapter.

[rajsri]

I guess its a intermitent hardware problem , may be once u can remove and fix the cards , if its under HP maintainance then they can diagnose.

Raju

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

i had the same problem on my C160L and removed the driver from the kernel as Michael said because i have no maintenance for this machine.
After that i never had this error again.

Regards

Andrew