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Date:      Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:29:28 -0000
From:      "Steven" <steven@trance.org>
To:        "Bernd Walter" <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
Cc:        <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: AlphaStation 200 SCSI woes
Message-ID:  <008501c1c15f$c99c4480$0201a8c0@offline.org.uk>
References:  <008f01c1c0b8$4bdee9a0$0201a8c0@offline.org.uk> <20020301003729.GC11453@cicely8.cicely.de> <00e501c1c0bc$cf86ff00$0201a8c0@offline.org.uk> <20020301013435.GE11453@cicely8.cicely.de> <013001c1c0d1$665f3d20$0201a8c0@offline.org.uk> <20020301035002.GF11453@cicely8.cicely.de>

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> Something like dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 count=10 should be
> enough.

Excelent! I tried doing this before from the fixit disk (the second alpha
cdrom), but it didn't work:

Fixit# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 count=10
dd: /dev/da0: end of device
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.121615 secs (0 bytes/sec)

I tried it again when I got your mail, but still the same problem. As it
happens, I live with 3 other students and yesterday when I got my free
alphastation, 2 others blagged an alphastation each too (so I have a
200-4/233, someone else has a 200-4/166 and the other is a 255 of some
description). Each of the others have redhat installed, so I took the hd out
of mine, stuck it in another, booted up redhat and ran dd. This time it
worked. After putting my disk back into my machine, sysinstall now starts.
Sysinstall hung the first time i tried installing, but now its all finished.

Thanks to all who helped, especially Bernd whose directions worked. I don't
normally take notes when I'm doing things, but I think I will write down
what I've done to get it working and stick it online somewhere, as I'm sure
I won't be the last person to run into these problems. I may try out the TGA
driver at some point, but as I don't have a spare monitor for the machine
(or space on my desk for a 4th keyboard!) and a serial cable waiting to be
used, there isn't a lot of need for it.

The only problem I have now is with the network card, but unless someone
knows what the blatent problem is, I'll just buy a 4 uk pound pci realtek
one instead. The built in card is a 21040. In SRM i "set ewa0_mode
twisted-pair" and during the boot up it is recognised:

de0: <Digital 21040 Ethernet> port 0x10100-0x1017f mem 0x82040100-0x8204017f
irq 5 at device 11.0 on pci0
de0: interrupting at ISA irq 5
de0: DEC 21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3
de0: address 08:00:2b:e7:53:a5

But then later on I get:

de0: autosense failed: cable problem?

Dispite the fact that the cable is plugged in, the light on the hub is on
and I know the network card works from when the machine had redhat
installed.

Anyway, thanks again for your help, I probably would have given up and stuck
linux on it by now without it.

Steven


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