From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 7 12:26:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C2C15274 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:26:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id VAA21975 for FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 21:21:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA01955 for FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 21:23:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199910071923.VAA01955@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Turbochannel based Alpha, quickie question To: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers list) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 21:23:07 +0200 (CEST) X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, I got my hands on an old Turbochannel Alpha machine. I'm currently in the process of attempting to install 3.3-Rel on it. Unfortunately it does not detect any disks: Entering kernel at 0xfffffc0000320fc0... Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #0: Thu Sep 16 16:33:09 GMT 1999 jkh@beast.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/BOOTMFS DEC 3000/500 ("Flamingo") DEC 3000 - M400, 133MHz 8192 byte page size, 1 processor. CPU: EV4 (21064) major=2 minor=1 OSF PAL rev: 0x2012d real memory = 65011712 (63488K bytes) Physical memory chunk(s): 0x008da000 - 0x03ffdfff, 57819136 bytes (7058 pages) avail memory = 55926784 (54616K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xfffffc00008be000. Preloaded mfs_root "/mfsroot" at 0xfffffc00008be0c0. tcasic0: tc0: <25 Mhz Turbochannel Bus> at tcasic0 ioasic0: at tc0 le0 at ioasic0, offset 0xc0000 le0: address 08:00:2b:3c:61:45 le0: 32 receive buffers, 8 transmit buffers mcclock0: at ioasic0, offset 0x200000 Calibrating clock(s) ... failed, using firmware default of 133000000 Hz struct nfssvc_sock bloated (> 256bytes) Try reducing NFS_UIDHASHSIZ struct nfsuid bloated (> 128bytes) Try unionizing the nu_nickname and nu_flag fields Timecounter "alpha" frequency 133000000 Hz Considering MFS root f/s. rootfs is 2880 Kbyte compiled in MFS start_init: trying /sbin/init start_init: trying /sbin/oinit start_init: trying /sbin/init.bak start_init: trying /stand/sysinstall I have the distinct (bad) feeling this is due to: # A single entry for any of these controllers (ncr, ahb, ahc, amd) is # sufficient for any number of installed devices. controller ncr0 controller isp0 #controller esp0 in GENERIC. I mean, esp is the driver for the 53C94 ncr scsi chip. Is there any particular reason why it is commented out in GENERIC? Floppy disk size limit maybe? Any clues? -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message