Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 20:46:30 -0500 From: "Waite, Michael" <Michael.Waite@compaq.com> To: 'Mike Smith' <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, alpha@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Digital KZPCA setup, help required Message-ID: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2CF1@mroexc2.tay.dec.com>
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Mike has left to go drink beer. I will try to get that info for you in the morning. ------Mike's personal automated answering service (very highly paid) -----Original Message----- From: Mike Smith [mailto:msmith@freebsd.org] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 8:40 PM To: Waite, Michael Cc: 'Mike Smith'; Peter Jeremy; alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Digital KZPCA setup, help required > Just curious....maybe I am crazy but to get ARC running on a DS20 you have > to do a very complicated set of manovers like this: > > > "arc" > > Am i wrong? > > I guess I am confused as to why anyone has a hard time getting arc to run.. Sorry, I guess my explanation before was a little scatty. Getting ARC to run on the DS20 was easy. But when I ran the ra200rcu program, I just got a blank screen. At that point in time, the KZPCA was on the second hose; I don't know if that's a problem or not. It also didn't have any disks attached. Moving it to the first hose and hanging disks off it works, modulo my complaints about the terrible cabling layout in at least this instance of the DS20 box. My real ordeal was trying to get ARC running on the PC164 that I am using as a scratch box; that's still a zero-sum failure. 8( Just offhand, can you tell me which Mylex controllers the other ra200 family controllers are based on? If I can't arrange some loaners from you, I'd like to at least try swapping firmware around to see if I can't make sure that we're supporting them properly. Also, if you can deal with the horror, I'd love to know if you can get the programming details for the EISA controller(s); with the AS2100 here and the very easy access to these controllers on eg. eBay, I get several enquiries a month from people that want to use them, but Mylex appear to have discarded the documentation that I need to make this work. 8( > ----Mike > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Smith [mailto:msmith@freebsd.org] > Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 8:19 PM > To: Peter Jeremy > Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Digital KZPCA setup, help required > > > > On 2000-Mar-10 11:40:07 +1100, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > >I'm trying to set up a Digital KZPCA (single channel RAID controller) > > > > My commiserations. I've come to the conclusion that s/w RAID is a > > better choice (at least with Tru64). > > I'm not going to comment on performance, just whether I can get the > dratted thing to work. 8) > > > >So; has anyone actually set one of these animals up? > > > > I've used the RCU on a AS4100 with a local display. It went as per the > book: > > - switch to ARC (AlphaBIOS) > > - Select `Run a program' from the `Boot menu' > > - Enter "A:RA200RCU" (without quotes) as the program to run. > > > > That should give you the main menu. > > Ok. I gave up on getting ARC going on the PC164 and went back to the > DS20, and this time I appear to have gotten it right. Apart from the > *(^%&^% power routing inside the chassis, which makes it impossible to > use the lower six or so PCI slots for long cards. 8( > > I should be more or less in business now, anyway. Sorry for the > runaround, chaps. > > -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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