Failure to detect PCI card
David Hawkins
dwh at ovro.caltech.edu
Fri Aug 9 08:10:45 EST 2013
Hi Pete,
> For those that are interested, we did figure out what was going on.
> Turns out that the clock buffer driving the PCI connector was, well,
> less than adequate. With some cards, the load on the clock line was
> large enough that the clock was in horrible shape. Fixing the clock
> line and the card that failed to be recognized started working. For
> the other cards that worked, the load on the clock line was
> significantly less, but the clock was still marginal.
>
> Anyway, turned out to be a hardware issue. Thanks to all that helped!
Thanks for posting that you solved the issue.
The old engineering debug mantra ran true; check the power, then
clocks, then debug :)
Cheers,
Dave
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