Problem:

SA85-001 card detected; mbpadmin: cannot initialize SA85 card

Cause:

This is almost certainly a problem with specifying the RAM address of the card. There is no way to be certain that an SA-85 card is in the machine at the given address, so if the driver does not get a valid SA-85 version 2 response, it assumes an SA-85 version 1. There are almost no version 1 cards out there, so the chance that the card is version 1 is very tiny. A correct startup message should indicate a version 2 card, not the SA85-001 that the startup error message indicates.

Solution:

If this is an ISA card, the mbpadmin command needs to be of the form:

mbpadmin -md000

with no space between the m and the d, to load the card with memory address 0xd000. If the card jumpers are set to other values, then these have to be reflected in the argments.

If this is a PCI card, then the command line would look like this:

mbpadmin -c0

to load the driver for the first PCI-85 card in the machine.

Please refer to the mbpadmin command in the SA85 Driver documentation for more information.