From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 05:59:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BEBD16A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 05:59:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iinet.net.au (mail-05.iinet.net.au [203.59.3.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C488343D2D for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 05:59:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from outsidefactor@iinet.net.au) Received: (qmail 28250 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2004 13:59:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tyr) (203.217.76.254) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 12 Mar 2004 13:59:56 -0000 Message-ID: <000301c4083a$32dc72d0$d915a8c0@tyr> From: "Chris Martin" To: Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 00:59:10 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: DAC 960 Tools X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:59:59 -0000 Sorry, this is a post to probably a long dead thread, but I found the earlier posts while I was searching around to find a method of updating the firmware on, then configuring a DAC960 on my A2100. I had no problems upgrading to firmware version 2.70 on my Alpha. I got the latest downloads from: http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/readmes/v6.6/utility/ Note these files are only good for Alpha servers before the 8x00 series, and do NOT USE THEM on jensen systems. I found a very helpful doco at: http://aa11.cjb.net/tru64_unix_managers/2000/06/0010.html The above doco was adapted by me a bit, as I just typed ARC at the SRM console to jump to ARC. After that all the tools worked fine. The flashing worked great (after I re-read the instructions and saw the bit about renaming the file name) and the config worked fine. I saw some unusual behaviour when initialising a RAID 1 disk, where it seemed to hang. I hit escape and then said no to quit and it continued on fine. Weird. After that I whacked a Tru64 5.1 CD in the drive and booted fine and installed the OS. I now have a happy machine. Oh, why Tru64, you ask? Well, last time I installed FreeBSD time was an issue... That is all seemed fine, but the clock ran twice as fast. I hunted for a solution and then found that the Kernel code needed patching for a 2100, and never could get the kernel to compile after I hacked in the patch. Don't know if 5.2.1 has the same issue. Anyone know? Chris Martin