From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 1 11: 8:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3350837B401 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:08:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id fA1J8aDe007754; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 20:08:36 +0100 (CET) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA1J8am15252; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 20:08:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 20:08:36 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: DAVE CUSHING , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaServer 400 Message-ID: <20011101200836.A15233@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <01Nov1.133922est.119057@charon.cambrianc.on.ca> <15329.39897.847099.976000@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:00:41PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > DAVE CUSHING writes: > > 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