Re: Lite5200 PCI not working
From: Gerhard Jaeger <hidden>
Date: 2004-06-22 06:08:40
Hi, On Monday 21 June 2004 21:19, Mark Jonas wrote:
Iñigo, I experienced this behavior with an USB card before. With that card the reason was a short on the USB card between 3.3V and 5V supply pins. In a normal PC this seems to be no problem (maybe because a PC's PCI ports are 5V only).
there seem to be more cards like these, they're in fact badly designed - they shorten the VI/O pins and 5V on the card, which could cause some trouble on the Lite5200, as the VI/O stuff is directly connected to the RAM chips and their I/O does not like the 5V... We sorted out some cheap networking adaptors...
The Lite5200 survived.
"What a lucky man he was" :-)
To be sure if this is the problem I recommend testing the card for the short.
That's a great idea, check esp. shortage between the VI/O and 5V lines on the card... Gerhard ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/