RickJames Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 I have a Power Pmac in a UMAC rack. It's had the problem of not booting all the way up to where the axis interface card lights light up. But a quick power cycle will usually get it into a completely running state. I upgraded the firmware to version 1.4.027 resently. The system booted up, I recompiled my project and it downloaded successfully. I tried to do another build and download but when I cycled power to clear the memory, the axis interface card lights come on for 5 seconds then drop out. If I pull the MACRO acc-5e card, then the axis control interface cards light up and stay lit. I talked to a friend who said there may be a problem with the cpu clocking on the Power Pmac. Or that the wait state may need to be increased becaus the CPU is faster than the backplane can handle. Any suggestions on debugging this? And where do I find the wait state (TURBO I37) on the Power Pmac? Is it Sys.BgSleepTime? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickJames Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 I captured the boot data that comes out of the serial port on the Power Pmac. It looks like some files are missing and the kernel may be corrupted. Would you experts please take a look at it and advise? Thanks, RickPPMac Capture 011113.TXT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sina.Sattari Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Rick, Can you please try the "PowerPMACFirmwareInstall" instructions under the following post and report the results back? http://forums.deltatau.com/showthread.php?tid=572 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickJames Posted January 22, 2013 Author Share Posted January 22, 2013 I tried the firmware install and that didn't work either. I finally got the system back to a working state by installing the firmware image. Thanks for the response Sina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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