Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 15:52:54 -0800 From: Craig Burgess <craig-burgess@home.com> To: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: current shot at AlphaHW.txt Message-ID: <387E6556.FD2F7412@home.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001131801200.319-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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I had a similar experience in modifying my machine from booting NT (EIDE drive) to FreeBSD -- Machine identified (From dmesg) as: EB164 Digital AlphaPC 164 500 MHz, 500MHz 8192 byte page size, 1 processor. CPU: EV56 (21164A) major=7 minor=2 extensions=0x1<BWX> I used the SRM firmware update I found at the Compaq/Digital site. Chuck Robey wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > Correction: > > in the EB164 section. I have a PC164SX myself, I stuck a NCR 875 in it, > and it boots fine. Your text makes me believe you can't do that. > > BTW, the AlphaBios it came with had a selection for what kind of console > to choose, of which one option was SRM. Choosing that was a null choice, > because it seemed to do nothing at all to the booting of AlphaBios. I had > to load the SRM that was available in Mike Smith's dir on freefall, to get > it to work. Doing that overwrote AlphaBios, so you can't even see that > original option to choose SRM as the console. Just means, don't believe > the GUI'd AlphaBios when it tells you there's a SRM option, if you have a > PC164SX. > > > As I have received some requests to see the latest version of the > > AlphaHW.txt that I'm working on: here it is. This is very much work in > > progress, please comment on any errors. Special attention please for +++ > > marked parts. > > > > > > FreeBSD/alpha Hardware Information [snipped] FWIW, the remainder of the HW which is running: xl0: <3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL> irq 2 at device 5.0 on pci0 xl1: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> irq 3 at device 9.0 on pci0 ncr0: <ncr 53c825 fast10 wide scsi> irq 1 at device 7.0 on pci0 The ncr controller is an old one from Corporate Data Systems (www.corpsys.com) da0: <IBM DNES-309170W SA30> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device "WARNING: preposterous clock chip time" (showd up after the new year) I bought the machine which had been used as a graphics workstation running NT. The machine is OEM "DeskStation Rebel" made by DeskStation Technologies and came with a 3DLabs display adapter. I have not successfully installed X -- or much else (FreeBSD 4.0-19991031-CURRENT #1); I have yet to find or create a file for CVSUP to work so that I can update the source. best regards, Craig -- For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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