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Date:      Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:36:52 +1100
From:      "Chris Martin" <outsidefactor@iinet.net.au>
To:        "Tom Ponsford" <tponsford@theriver.com>, <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: DAC 960 Tools
Message-ID:  <002501c408c5$99e75270$d915a8c0@tyr>
References:  <000301c4083a$32dc72d0$d915a8c0@tyr><20040312140520.GC2790@freebie.xs4all.nl> <004801c40879$1f3fdac0$d915a8c0@tyr><20040312213741.GA5149@freebie.xs4all.nl> <000c01c4087c$ef41cb90$d915a8c0@tyr><20040313002627.GA8278@cicely12.cicely.de> <40526AFE.8090009@theriver.com>

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> 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!

Chris Martin



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