From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Mar 9 17:17:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F2F637B8DA for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:17:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01790; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:18:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003100118.RAA01790@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Peter Jeremy Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Digital KZPCA setup, help required In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 12:06:54 +1100." <00Mar10.120702est.115254@border.alcanet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 17:18:31 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On 2000-Mar-10 11:40:07 +1100, Mike Smith wrote: > >I'm trying to set up a Digital KZPCA (single channel RAID controller) > > My commiserations. I've come to the conclusion that s/w RAID is a > better choice (at least with Tru64). I'm not going to comment on performance, just whether I can get the dratted thing to work. 8) > >So; has anyone actually set one of these animals up? > > I've used the RCU on a AS4100 with a local display. It went as per the book: > - switch to ARC (AlphaBIOS) > - Select `Run a program' from the `Boot menu' > - Enter "A:RA200RCU" (without quotes) as the program to run. > > That should give you the main menu. Ok. I gave up on getting ARC going on the PC164 and went back to the DS20, and this time I appear to have gotten it right. Apart from the *(^%&^% power routing inside the chassis, which makes it impossible to use the lower six or so PCI slots for long cards. 8( I should be more or less in business now, anyway. Sorry for the runaround, chaps. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message