Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:51:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bruce M. Walter" <walter@fortean.com> To: "Gooderum, Mark" <mark@jumpweb.com> Cc: "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: More DEC Multia Questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.990412223154.8034A-100000@callisto.fortean.com> In-Reply-To: <50C732FEDE87D211954300A024786203A6B1@archeron.good.com>
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> I know, I'm just full of them...first, thanks to everyone pointing out the > obvious, the Multia fan blows _out_, not _in_. That's what I get for > pondering EMail and holding my hand over vents at 2am after changing a flat > in 40 Deg rain. Although Bruce's mention of a 3X capacity fan is of > Interest...how does one get a hold of McMaster Carr and what's the part #. See the 'My Multia doubles as a space heater' section of: ftp://ftp.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/aux/netbsd/htdocs/Ports/alpha/multiafaq.html for lots of good Multia info along with the part numbers for several fans from McMaster Carr. I've got a bunch of Multia urls compiled and if I get through this list of who's naughty and who's nice before December, I'll post it somewhere accessible. ;) Please note that I can confirm the authors claim that the Multia which once doubled as a space heater now sounds like a turbo-prop airplane. Ciest la vie! > Seeing the ncr0 errors again, first is a 'SCSI phase error: CCB already > dequed" followed by repeated "timeout nccb" errors. Is this an (older) Quantum drive? I originally had mine hooked up to an LPS 500mb, which the NCR did NOT like... Replacing it with a newer Quantum 2.1gb and an IBM DCARS did the trick. Apparently Quantum's older firmware really was quite sketchy. > dec_axppci_33_intr_map: bad interrupt pin XX: > > During boot with the GENERIC kernel, I get bunches of > dec_axppci_33_intr_map: bad interrupt pin XX errors. Lots of 30s and one > 0x79. The flaky DEC Multia firmware strikes again. Wilko and others are rumored to have a copy of an unreleased firmware revision from DEC which solves this problem. Chances are it is the fw which originated from Chris Demetriou, but I've not been able to get a hold of it. Basically, the PCI controller is finding nonexistant garbage devices at every possible address on the bus. It *SHOULDN'T* actually do any harm, but one never knows... Just to let you know, I replaced my non-pci-slot NCR riser with the model which has a pci slot naievely thinking it may help. Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Wrong answer :( - Bruce ______________________ Bruce M. Walter, Principal NIXdesign Group Inc. 426 S. Dawson Street Raleigh NC 27601 USA 919.829.4901 Tel (ext 11) 919.829.4993 Fax http://www.nixdesign.com Visual communications | concept + code To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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