From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 23: 9:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout05.sul.t-online.de (mailout05.sul.t-online.de [194.25.134.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 768D937BB51; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 23:09:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Meerwaldt@t-online.de) Received: from fwd06.sul.t-online.de by mailout05.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 12cizi-0004Oq-07; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 08:08:50 +0200 Received: from server.wes.mee.com (320044045192-0001@[62.157.22.199]) by fwd06.sul.t-online.de with esmtp id 12cizc-18YQ1IC; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 08:08:44 +0200 Received: from server.wes.mee.com (server.wes.mee.com [192.168.1.1]) by server.wes.mee.com (8.9.3/FreeBSD V4.0) with ESMTP id HAA00971; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 07:53:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 07:53:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Meerwaldt@t-online.de (Frederik Meerwaldt) To: Stephen Yip Cc: hou-freebsd-request@cityscope.net, Majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Customer Support , Sales , Technical Support Subject: Re: <<<<>>>>> In-Reply-To: <20000404182345.20647.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Sender: 320044045192-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry to say this in a FreeBSD List, but for Alpha Platforms, take Tru64. That's a really cool and more stable OS. -- Best regards, Freddy Homepage: fmeerwaldt.homepage.com Last update: 11.03.2000 Very good OpenVMS HowTo's, DHCPD Howto, VXT2k NetBooting HowTo, and a little bit about me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NetBSD Vax, Alpha, i386. Tru64 Unix, OpenVMS, FreeBSD, Ultrix. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Stephen Yip wrote: > Dear support team of Free BSD, > > > We are a company who looking for high performance and Open Platform yet very stables machines. So we have chose Free BSD 4.0 as our OS for it is configurable, high compatibility and yet high performance. Also our existing hardware (see below) is on your compatibility list too. > > > > Machine: Microway UP2000 (Class TSUNAMI) > > CPU: Alpha 21264CPU > > RAID card: AMI Mega RAID Enterprise 1500 RAID card and Elite 1500 > > > > However, when we have installed the RAID card on the machine and then boot it, it shows the following error message: > > > > amr0: mem 0x40000000-0x4000ffff irq 27 at device 8.1 on pci0 > > amr0: interrupting at TSUNAMI irq 27 > > amr0: I/O error 0xffff > > amr0: controller wedged (not taking command) > > amr0: could not obtain configuration data from controller > > > > We waved our hands to Microway and Alpha Processor Institute (who is the developer of the mainboard), but we got only NEGATIVE feedback, said they don’t have such case. Despite of our disappointment and anger, we have tried to fix it by ourselves too, but it gets only similar error message. So we write to you expertise, hoping you can help us. We are urgent to get through this bottleneck, in which it totally stuck-up everything for an unreasonable long time! Whatever solution or information, or even any idea forward to us soon will be very appreciated! > > > > Thanks very much for your attention. > > > > Yours faithfully, > > Stephen Yip > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message