From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Mar 1 12:27:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 619F037B417 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:27:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from cartman ([213.107.250.133]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020301202713.OWS305.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@cartman>; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:27:13 +0000 Message-ID: <008501c1c15f$c99c4480$0201a8c0@offline.org.uk> From: "Steven" To: "Bernd Walter" Cc: References: <008f01c1c0b8$4bdee9a0$0201a8c0@offline.org.uk> <20020301003729.GC11453@cicely8.cicely.de> <00e501c1c0bc$cf86ff00$0201a8c0@offline.org.uk> <20020301013435.GE11453@cicely8.cicely.de> <013001c1c0d1$665f3d20$0201a8c0@offline.org.uk> <20020301035002.GF11453@cicely8.cicely.de> Subject: Re: AlphaStation 200 SCSI woes Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:29:28 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 > Something like dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 count=10 should be > enough. Excelent! I tried doing this before from the fixit disk (the second alpha cdrom), but it didn't work: Fixit# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 count=10 dd: /dev/da0: end of device 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.121615 secs (0 bytes/sec) I tried it again when I got your mail, but still the same problem. As it happens, I live with 3 other students and yesterday when I got my free alphastation, 2 others blagged an alphastation each too (so I have a 200-4/233, someone else has a 200-4/166 and the other is a 255 of some description). Each of the others have redhat installed, so I took the hd out of mine, stuck it in another, booted up redhat and ran dd. This time it worked. After putting my disk back into my machine, sysinstall now starts. Sysinstall hung the first time i tried installing, but now its all finished. Thanks to all who helped, especially Bernd whose directions worked. I don't normally take notes when I'm doing things, but I think I will write down what I've done to get it working and stick it online somewhere, as I'm sure I won't be the last person to run into these problems. I may try out the TGA driver at some point, but as I don't have a spare monitor for the machine (or space on my desk for a 4th keyboard!) and a serial cable waiting to be used, there isn't a lot of need for it. The only problem I have now is with the network card, but unless someone knows what the blatent problem is, I'll just buy a 4 uk pound pci realtek one instead. The built in card is a 21040. In SRM i "set ewa0_mode twisted-pair" and during the boot up it is recognised: de0: port 0x10100-0x1017f mem 0x82040100-0x8204017f irq 5 at device 11.0 on pci0 de0: interrupting at ISA irq 5 de0: DEC 21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 de0: address 08:00:2b:e7:53:a5 But then later on I get: de0: autosense failed: cable problem? Dispite the fact that the cable is plugged in, the light on the hub is on and I know the network card works from when the machine had redhat installed. Anyway, thanks again for your help, I probably would have given up and stuck linux on it by now without it. Steven To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message