From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 29 6:18:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from minmei.iqm.unicamp.br (minmei.iqm.unicamp.br [143.106.51.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D202A37B539 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 06:18:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from picapau@minmei.iqm.unicamp.br) Received: by minmei.iqm.unicamp.br (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9F035133A5; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:18:36 -0300 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:18:36 -0300 From: Andre Severo To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaServer 1000 freezing during installation Message-ID: <20000329111836.A10213@minmei.iqm.unicamp.br> Reply-To: picapau@minmei.iqm.unicamp.br References: <20000325181342.A88910@minmei.iqm.unicamp.br> <14557.27001.718759.711008@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20000329092158.A96147@minmei.iqm.unicamp.br> <14562.2571.201291.426577@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <14562.2571.201291.426577@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:51:10AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:51:10AM -0500, Andrew Gallatin claimed that: |> |> Andre Severo writes: |> > |> > The disk problem persists, though - i have to exerc them or else they |> > are taken to be offline. |> |> I didn't understand that last bit -- can you explain what you mean by |> "have to exerc them or else they are taken to be offline" ? |> My apologies for such an obscure sentence =) What I meant by that was that I had to use the command "exerc" on the srm monitor prior to the boot procedure to sort of "warm up" the disks. Without this "warm up exercise" for a few seconds the disks are detected but their size is not assessed (this failure is what I meant by "taken to be offline"). I hope that helps. Regards, Andre picapau@minmei.iqm.unicamp.br |> Thanks, |> |> Drew |> |> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |> Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin |> Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu |> Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message