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Date:      Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:47:24 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Santiago Zapata <szapata@creatos.com.mx>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: newbie installation question on Alpha Server 1000
Message-ID:  <20000713234724.A562@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <14702.13975.727424.446303@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 05:42:18PM -0400
References:  <396B3C49.6696EDE4@creatos.com.mx> <20000711203908.B1457@freebie.demon.nl> <p04320400b593e5c5fe34@[205.134.59.45]> <14702.13975.727424.446303@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 05:42:18PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Santiago Zapata writes:
>  > Slot Option
>  > 
>  > 6     NCR 53C818     Hose 0, Bus 0, PCI

		  818? 810 I hope..

>  >                       pka0.7.0.6.0                SCSI Bus ID7
>  >                       dka0.0.0.6.0                RZ28M
>  >                       dka400.4.0.6.0              RRD45
>  >                       mka5000.5.0.6.0             TLZ07
>  > 
> 
> This should work.  Do you see a message like "ncr0: <ncr 53c810......" ??
> 
> Another thing to try is to make sure the disk is spun up.  There
> should be a jumper you can set on the rz28 to make it spin up at
> power-on.  It might be as simple as to say 'boot dka0' and ^C out of
> it after the disk starts moving.

SHOW DEVICES will do the spinup for you. But as for the jumper: depends on
the RZ28x model. A RZ28M is a Seagate IIRC. In general the SRM should have
no problems spinning up the disk, otherwise T64 or VMS would also have a 
problem booting ;-)

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Wilko Bulte  	 	http://www.freebsd.org  "Do, or do not. There is no try"
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