From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 21 12:51:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01339 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:51:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01334 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:51:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01582; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:54:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810211954.MAA01582@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Don cc: Mike Smith , mark thompson , tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alphastation 200 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Oct 1998 15:37:50 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:53:59 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I had some interesting adventures with an AS200 and firmware upgrades. > > The first thing to bear in mind is that the AS200 typically only has > > *one* flash prom onboard. If you install the ARC firmware, you'll be > > left with an ARC-only system (and getting back from there is not > > supported, although it is possible). > > This is not at all true. I have switched between ARC and SRM several times > already. Actually, it is true. I was there at the time, oddly enough, and lo and behold my AS200 only has enough flash for one system at a time. > It is fully supported on the alphastation 200's and not just possible. Looks like a misreading of the update documentation on my part; there's a caution that it's not possible to update from the ARC console for this release in the release notes, but on rereading it it's no longer clear whether it simply shares the same numerical confusion as the rest of the document or whether it really does just apply to ARC 4.41 and the AS400. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message