Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:18:06 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Waite, Michael" <Michael.Waite@compaq.com>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Digital KZPCA setup, help required Message-ID: <20000310181806.B54919@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <200003100139.RAA02042@mass.cdrom.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:39:37PM -0800 References: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2CED@mroexc2.tay.dec.com> <200003100139.RAA02042@mass.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:39:37PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > Just curious....maybe I am crazy but to get ARC running on a DS20 you have > > to do a very complicated set of manovers like this: > > > > > > "arc" > > > > Am i wrong? > > > > I guess I am confused as to why anyone has a hard time getting arc to run.. > > Sorry, I guess my explanation before was a little scatty. > > Getting ARC to run on the DS20 was easy. But when I ran the ra200rcu > program, I just got a blank screen. At that point in time, the KZPCA was > on the second hose; I don't know if that's a problem or not. It also > didn't have any disks attached. Moving it to the first hose and hanging > disks off it works, modulo my complaints about the terrible cabling > layout in at least this instance of the DS20 box. > > My real ordeal was trying to get ARC running on the PC164 that I am using > as a scratch box; that's still a zero-sum failure. 8( > > Just offhand, can you tell me which Mylex controllers the other ra200 > family controllers are based on? If I can't arrange some loaners from > you, I'd like to at least try swapping firmware around to see if I can't > make sure that we're supporting them properly. DAC960<something> IIRC the KZPAC is the Ultra capable one. KZPSC are earlier Fast SCSI based ones. The KZPSCs have hardware revs that are not high enough to run the latest firmware, I think they can only run 2.xx firmware where Mylex last had 4.xx The 4.xx has a different programming interface. <I hope I remembered this right> > Also, if you can deal with the horror, I'd love to know if you can get > the programming details for the EISA controller(s); with the AS2100 here > and the very easy access to these controllers on eg. eBay, I get several > enquiries a month from people that want to use them, but Mylex appear to > have discarded the documentation that I need to make this work. 8( Mylex flatly refused to give this docs out when I tried.. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands http://www.tcja.nl The FreeBSD Project: http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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