Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:48:17 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: alpha@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DAC 960 Tools Message-ID: <200403151048.17650.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <002501c408c5$99e75270$d915a8c0@tyr> References: <000301c4083a$32dc72d0$d915a8c0@tyr> <40526AFE.8090009@theriver.com> <002501c408c5$99e75270$d915a8c0@tyr>
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On Saturday 13 March 2004 01:36 am, Chris Martin wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Bernd Walter wrote: > > > This was already topic in january, but I don't now what happened then. > > > > That would partially be my fault. I posted the bug-report for the alpha > > 2100 > > > machine check and Drew Gallatin gave me a patch to try. Unfortunaltly the > > 2100a machine I have, is running VMS for a project I'm currently working > > on. I > > > had the machine down for a few days while I replaced some disks, but I > > had > > to > > > put the machine back up before I could try the patches. I should have the > > project complete sometime this month and I'll have time to try the > > patches. In > > > fact I'm getting another 2100 with 3 cpus and about 512MB of memory next > > week > > > and I may be able to try the patches out on that machine. I'm not sure if > > the > > > machine checks were endemic to just the 2100a or encompassed the whole > > 2100 > > > family. Freebsd 4.6 in a uniprocessor mode ran pretty good as I recall. > > > > If you have the time and inclination and a 2100 you can try Drew's > > patches. > > I have 2100 (5/250) and the inclination! If you can give me Drew's patches > and a howto use them I will give them a go. Please note that I am no coder, > but I do at least understand how C and makefiles are laid out. > > Any suggestions where I can either get a SIMM board or 512MB card from, > cheap? My 2100 on has 128MB of RAM. > > As a side note, 4.9 works fine, even with SMP. It even has the double speed > clock issue resolved on the ISO! Yay! 4.9 doesn't support SMP, only 5.x does, and the clock issue only kicks in when using multiple CPUs. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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