From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 23:45:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe49.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.240.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D933437BE2E for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 23:45:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephenyw@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 4434 invoked by uid 65534); 5 Apr 2000 06:45:53 -0000 Message-ID: <20000405064553.4433.qmail@hotmail.com> X-Originating-IP: [202.41.160.40] From: "Stephen Yip" To: "Frederik Meerwaldt" Cc: , , , "Customer Support" , "Sales" , "Technical Support" References: Subject: Re: <<<<>>>>> Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:47:54 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="KOI8-R" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG But not open , I think open is very important for our next generation . Stephen Yip ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frederik Meerwaldt" To: "Stephen Yip" Cc: ; ; ; "Customer Support" ; "Sales" ; "Technical Support" Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 1:53 PM Subject: Re: <<<<>>>>> 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 d eveloper 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