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Date:      Sat, 7 Apr 2001 00:12:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ALpha 4100 boot issues
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104070012080.1181-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <E14liN3-000Jy7-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>

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On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Wilko Bulte wrote:

> > [ cc'd to -alpha for broadcast ]
> > 
> > The problem was one of the following two problems:
> > 
> > 1. The Qlogic SCSI controller being booted from does not work if it is not in
> > hose 0 (upper left, looking from rear).
> 
> Is this a plain QL1040? Aka a KZPBA in DEC/CPQ speak?
>  
> > 2. If the QLogic SCSI controller is the 'bridged' DEC part (i.e., the part
> > that has a 21150 bridge and the QLogic behind that), booting doesn't work.
> 
> Hmm. I will check if this is supported in the first place. 
> 
> > I'm not sure which, if any, it really is. I'm inclined to think that #1 may be
> > broken for -current because hose 1 has the EISA console, and that there might
> > be some funny interaction ther. 
> > 
> > I'm inclined to think that #2 might be broken period for -stable because we
> > don't have clean hose management in -stable, IIRC.
> 
> Do any of these problems show themselves using Tru64?

Nope. And neither on NetBSD.




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