From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 10 13:45:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C1C637B424; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:45:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA14471; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:45:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f3AKj8L20499; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:45:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15059.28884.541304.633317@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:45:08 -0400 (EDT) To: John Baldwin Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha woes.. In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Baldwin writes: > Well, my alpha deadlocked again during a -j 4 buildworld today. Unfortunately, > my alpha began its life as a NT workstation (PWS 500a) so it's halt/reset > button functions as a reset button, i.e. you punch it and the machine resets, > rather than getting a useful SRM prompt at which to examine regs, etc. > Anyways, I decided to pull the lid off and attempt to locate the jumper to > change the behavior of the button to be more useful (i.e. to halt). After > failing to locate it by any obvious means, I went to Compaq's disappointing web > site to attempt to find docco on how to do this but was unsuccessful. If > anyone has any idea on how to get these things to halt and not reboot, I would > really appreciate it. If you have an MX5, then there's a tiny little halt button on the motherboard between the memory Dimms and the back panel at the very top of the machine. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message