From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jul 21 6:39:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from cgi.sstar.com (cgi.sstar.com [209.205.176.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DD1937BA85; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 06:39:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Received: from bluto.jimking.net (bluto.jimking.net [216.54.255.8]) by cgi.sstar.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA66514; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:39:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Received: from marble (marble.lgc.com [134.132.228.8]) by bluto.jimking.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA00477; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:39:31 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Message-ID: <001101bff319$1ac14930$08e48486@marble> From: "Jim King" To: Cc: References: <20000720130323.B67647@dragon.nuxi.com> <14711.43502.595645.380964@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20000721111340.F66813@freebie.demon.nl> Subject: Re: alpha snapshots? (was RE: Alphserver 2100 4/233) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 08:39:31 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 09:42:43PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > Matthew Jacob writes: > > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:37:40AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > > Hmm.. I'd suggest axing the ncr driver (why is it still in GENERIC now > > > > > that SYM supports the older devices??). > > > > > > > > I feel groudier would be a better judge of this than I am. > > > > If he agrees, I'll axe it out. > > > > > > Does it support the 810 (not the 810a)? > > > > > > > Yes. At least the Sable at BSDI has one & it works there: > > > > FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 5 09:09:52 EDT 2000 > > gallatin@chopin.cs.duke.edu:/a/muffin/export/ari_scratch2/gallatin/stable/sy s/compile/GENERIC > > DEC AlphaServer 2100 > > AlphaServer 2100 4/200, 190MHz > > 8192 byte page size, 2 processors. > > CPU: EV4 (21064) major=2 minor=1 > > OSF PAL rev: 0x4000c0002012d > > <....> > > sym0: <810> port 0x10000-0x100ff mem 0x81000000-0x810000ff irq 33 at device 1.0 on pci0 > > sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, SE, parity checking > > sym0: interrupting at T2 irq 33 > > <...> > > da0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > > <...> > > > > Wilko tested it on his AS200 & it reportedly works fine there too. > > AS2100 > > And indeed it worked just fine, at least the install. It used the > internal disk shelf, so the builtin 810 fwiw, on my AS200 I just switched from ncr to sym and enabled PPS_SYNC, and got two solid lockups in 12 hours. The source on this box is 4-stable from about a month ago, so this weekend I'll try again with an up-to-date -stable and see if the problem still exists, and whether it's sym or PPS_SYNC that's causing the problem. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message