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 ;) -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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