Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 00:59:10 +1100 From: "Chris Martin" <outsidefactor@iinet.net.au> To: <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: DAC 960 Tools Message-ID: <000301c4083a$32dc72d0$d915a8c0@tyr>
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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
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