[c-nsp] unhappy NPE-150

[Ed Ravin]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:19:47AM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:38:09PM -0400, Ed Ravin wrote:
> > I dusted off an old NPE-150 removed from service and tried to use
> > it in a known good 7206 non-VXR chassis.  These messages appeared
> > on bootup:
> > 
> >   C7200 processor with 131072 Kbytes of main memory
> > 
> >   *** Cache Error Exception ***
> 
> What IOS?  This could be a "too recent IOS" problem.  NPE-150s really
> don't work anymore with 12.3 and later.

Sorry, I should have given more detail.  By "on bootup" I mean seconds
after powerup, just after the Cisco banner prints to the console.  It
never even gets so far as to load IOS from bootflash, much less the
main IOS image.  If I send BREAK I can get to the rommon prompt but
simple commands like "dir" fail (see below).

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System Bootstrap, Version 11.1(10) [dschwart 10], RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1994 by cisco Systems, Inc.
C7200 processor with 131072 Kbytes of main memory

rommon 1 > dir slot1:

*** Emulating mis-aligned load at 0x80005a7a
    PC = 0xbfc18c5c ... succeeded
loadprog: error - on read during ELF program load

*** Emulating mis-aligned load at 0x80005a7a
    PC = 0xbfc187c0 ... succeeded
requested -797551275 (0xd0765555) bytes, got 49152 (0xc000)

*** Emulating mis-aligned load at 0xa0002d7a
    PC = 0xbfc16c30 ... succeeded
cannot load the monitor library "
*** Cache Error Exception ***
Cache Err Reg = 0xa0005c09
data reference, primary cache, data field error , error not on SysAD Bus 
PC = 0xbfc1cf8c, Cause = 0x0, Status Reg = 0x3040d007

monitor: command "dir" aborted due to exception