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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.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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