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Date:      Thu, 09 Mar 2000 17:00:32 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        "Waite, Michael" <Michael.Waite@compaq.com>
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Digital KZPCA setup, help required 
Message-ID:  <200003100100.RAA01578@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Mar 2000 19:41:09 EST." <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2CDF@mroexc2.tay.dec.com> 

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> You do not run ra200rcu.exe from "SRM" you have to shitch to ARC.
> WOrks perfectly fine. Confirgure it in are by choosing to "run a utility"
> (or some such nonsence).
> 
> Got it?

Not entirely.  I don't have the actual manuals for the KZPCA (it was in 
the first of the AS4100's you sent us apparently by accident), so I've 
been flying blind based on what I could pick up by searching the Compaq 
website.  There were instructions there that suggested that the tools 
could be run from under SRM - the fat:ra200rcu.exe/dva0 syntax doesn't 
look like anything that ARC supports.  8)

The real problem here is that my test box is the PC164, and I can't get
ARC to come up on it at all; the most recent firmware update (contained in
400D4497.zip) doesn't want to work under the SRM that it's running
(5.5-1).  I only tested briefly with the DS20, and I may have gotten
something wrong, so I guess I'll go back to it and try again.

I assume that there are no SRM-hosted tools for setting the controller up?

To answer your other questions; what I have is a KZPCA-XA, which appears 
to be a single-channel Mylex DAC960-PD with (very) old (2.42) firmware 
and 4M of RAM.  

Mylex have kindly supplied me with the documentation for this controller, 
and I wanted to try to make the trivial changes necessary to have it 
supported in the 4.0 release.  I'd hope that the later controllers (those 
using the 3.x, 4.x and 5.x firmware will "just work" with some changes 
that I need to commit very soon.  (I can't verify this as I don't have 
access to any of them; I've tested the 960PG and 1100PVX, and will be 
testing the 960PTL1 tomorrow.)  Right now the single biggest issue is 
getting a configuration tool of some sort up and running, as there are as 
yet no FreeBSD-native tools for this.


Thanks for the speedy responses.

Regards,
Mike Smith
FreeBSD Test Labs

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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