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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