[weblacky]

Sucess! I managed to start IDE from Harddisk as part of the original 5.3-installation:

via command monitor:

Code:

boot -f dksc(1,6,8)sashIP17

and then:

Code:

/stand/ide

after running an io test, which includes VME:

Code:

io test pass, pass count = 20, skip count = 10

(10 skips due to "Disk Write Mode is OFF".)

So I get no VME-bus errors.

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I installed the MMI-210 ("Vigra") board in VME-slot 1. Then in slot 2, whilst jumpering the IACK and BG jumpers of slot 1, leaving open the IACK/BG jumpers in slots 2-4. In both cases I get in HINV only:

Code:

VME bus: adapter 0

Since I know that the VME bus is working now, there are 2 possibilities: IACK/BG is still not jumpered correctly and/or the Vigra board itself has to be jumpered another way, of which there is no documentation.

I do not know if this is helpful or not but I found this while searching online and thought maybe there's some clues under the SGI Irix installation information sections.

This document is put out by the same company that makes the soundboard you're working on. It may be for a different product or an add-on library, I'm not sure. But I thought the way in which they tell you to configure the VME bus using their script that's supposed to be in the driver library might be the key to what you're looking for.

That is to say maybe the methodology here's the same methodology they used in their other products.


I apologize if this is not helpful. 



https://www.retrodev.com/files/vigra_mmi/host-doc.pdf