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Date:      Thu, 1 Nov 2001 20:08:36 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        DAVE CUSHING <DMCUSHING@cambrianc.on.ca>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AlphaServer 400
Message-ID:  <20011101200836.A15233@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <15329.39897.847099.976000@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:00:41PM -0500
References:  <01Nov1.133922est.119057@charon.cambrianc.on.ca> <15329.39897.847099.976000@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:00:41PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> DAVE CUSHING writes:
>  > <grin>  I forgot to try to boot from the second controller, so I decided to try it and see if it would see the drives properly, here are the results:
>  > 
>  > >>>boot dkb0
>  > (boot dkb0.0.0.1000.0 -file kernel)
>  > block 0 of dkb0.0.0.1000.0 is a valid boot block
>  > reading 921 blocks from dkb0.0.0.1000.0
>  > bootstrap code read in
>  > base = 1f2000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 73200
>  > initializing HWRPB at 2000
>  > initializing page table at 1e4000
>  > initializing machine state
>  > setting affinity to the primary CPU
>  > jumping to bootstrap code
>  > 
>  > 
>  >     OpenVMS (TM) Alpha Operating System, Version V7.2-1  
>  > 
>  > Guess, this was the test VMS machine :)  Either way, I know the drives work ok with the hardware configuration, how come no FreeBSD??
>  > 
>  > Thanks in advance for your help (and patience with a newbie).
> 
> Some older DEC disks don't spin up automatically.  I can't remember if
> we send start-unit command to spin them up or not.  If we don't, that
> might explain things.

SRM does on SHOW DEVICE. I'm pretty sure the SCSI/CAM layer sends
a spinup as well.

I debug this kind of trouble with my ears ;)

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