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Date:      Thu, 28 Oct 1999 20:54:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        "Erik H. Bakke" <erik@habatech.no>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strange problem with ATA on my 164SX
Message-ID:  <14360.61161.234897.646014@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991029023829.erik@habatech.no>
References:  <XFMail.991029023829.erik@habatech.no>

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Erik H. Bakke writes:
 > 
 > After some hours of scratching my head, saying bad words and endless reboot
 > cycles, I put the graphics card back in, just to see what happened, and lo and
 > behold...  The system was back to normal again.
 > 
 > So, this leads to an obvious question:
 > 
 > Is FreeBSD supposed to be able to run headless on Alpha systems?

Yes. We have over 20 alphas running FreeBSD headless here.
6 of them are DS10s with nothing but IDE drives (and local hacks to
get them booting off of ide drives).

Just a WAG: Try putting a DELAY(1000) at the top of ad_transfer.
There are some timing issues I've seen w/addump that might be biting
you.   

I have NFC why a graphics card would matter though.

Drew



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