Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 17:01:45 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Dan Williams <dan@bigw.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 4.9 on AlphaServer 1000a/400 Message-ID: <20040519150145.GB53657@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.21.0405190933080.23019-100000@polonius.bigw.org> References: <005c01c43d21$d6c3ae60$6a0aa8c0@sassie.net> <Pine.NEB.4.21.0405190933080.23019-100000@polonius.bigw.org>
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On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 09:35:04AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > Hi, > > I'm quite able to run FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on my AS 1000a 5/400, of course > I don't have a Mylex card but only the onboard SCSI and an Adaptec > 2940U. I have not tried 5.2 yet, but some of the later 4.x series builds > had serious issues with the onboard ISP SCSI driver that caused the > machine to forever loop during discovery of the adapter. When using isp(4) always load ispfw as well (advise received from MAtt Jacob, the isp(4) author). > Anyway, give 5.1-RELEASE a try and see if that works for you, to at least > pin down the versions that have problems. > > Dan > > On Tue, 18 May 2004, M Gollihue wrote: > > > Hello, all! > > > > I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on an AlphaServer 1000a/400/256Mb. It > > gets through the initial configuration just fine, however, upon getting to > > the place where it attempts to download from FTP...it downloads the first 10 > > blocks of the distribution then stops. The error message on VTY2 says > > "Attempt to write beyond the end of the drive." > > > > I have a Mylex 960 card with two 9Gb drives attached, partitioned 6Gb > > data/1Gb swap/1Gb temp. Anyone else experience this problem? The system > > works fine under Red Hat. > > > > I tried to load FBSD 5.2.1, but I get a machine bugcheck and it halts the > > system. But that is for another day. > > > > Thanks, > > Michael Gollihue > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-alpha-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-alpha-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ---end of quoted text--- -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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