Peritek
Troubleshooting
6-5
6.3 Does this board talk at all?
Note
Most 680xx-based CPU boards use some variation of the Motorola
debugger for base level communications and diagnostics. The
installation/debug section uses the Motorola version of the debugger in the
examples.
It is a great help in determining the cause of a board problem if you have
either the PTERM or autobooting CnP PROM, because if you get a display
on power up it is a reassurance that the board probably works. If you don't
have a PROM, then you are running blind, especially if this is a new
installation.
Typical equipment required for the test is a suitable monitor (analog RGB
with sync on green) and a MVME167-based computer with Unix System
V. Peritek supports QIC-150 cartridge tape distribution media.
If you have problems with the board responding, you may have an address
conflict. This section tells you how to check to be sure there are no other
devices which respond to its addresses. The board in this example follows
MVME167 VMEbus address assignments with respect to A16, A24, and
A32 areas. If you are not using a 167, see Chapter ? for other CPU board
addresses. The graphics board responds to A16 and A32 bus masters (but
not A24 unless specially enabled). The standard addresses for the graphics
board are:
MVME167
Physical Address
Address Type
Data Type
Control Registers
FFFFC000-FFFFC00F
A16
D16, D32
Line Buffer
FFFF8000-FFFF83FF
A16/A24*
D8, D16, D32
Full Memory
A0000000-A3FFFFFF
A32
D8, D16, D32
* optional - set by control bit in CSR
The MVME167 debugger can be used to determine whether there are
address conflicts. Except for the graphics board CSR base address itself,
all address areas are software programmable. If you want to use the
console debugger to examine the physical address areas that the board will
occupy, do not allow the computer to boot. Using the following procedure:
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