Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:51:01 -0500 From: "Jim King" <jim@jimking.net> To: <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: alpha snapshots? (was RE: Alphserver 2100 4/233) Message-ID: <001f01bff323$28996650$a44b8486@jking> References: <20000720130323.B67647@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007201306360.45768-100000@beppo.feral.com> <14711.43502.595645.380964@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20000721111340.F66813@freebie.demon.nl> <001101bff319$1ac14930$08e48486@marble>
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Jim King wrote: > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 09:42:43PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > > > Matthew Jacob writes: > > > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:37:40AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > > > Hmm.. I'd suggest axing the ncr driver (why is it still in > GENERIC now > > > > > > that SYM supports the older devices??). > > > > > > > > > > I feel groudier would be a better judge of this than I am. > > > > > If he agrees, I'll axe it out. > > > > > > > > Does it support the 810 (not the 810a)? > > > > > > > > > > Yes. At least the Sable at BSDI has one & it works there: > > > > > > FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 5 09:09:52 EDT 2000 > > > > gallatin@chopin.cs.duke.edu:/a/muffin/export/ari_scratch2/gallatin/stable/sy > s/compile/GENERIC > > > DEC AlphaServer 2100 > > > AlphaServer 2100 4/200, 190MHz > > > 8192 byte page size, 2 processors. > > > CPU: EV4 (21064) major=2 minor=1 > > > OSF PAL rev: 0x4000c0002012d > > > <....> > > > sym0: <810> port 0x10000-0x100ff mem 0x81000000-0x810000ff irq 33 at > device 1.0 on pci0 > > > sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, SE, parity checking > > > sym0: interrupting at T2 irq 33 > > > <...> > > > da0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > > > <...> > > > > > > Wilko tested it on his AS200 & it reportedly works fine there too. > > > > AS2100 > > > > And indeed it worked just fine, at least the install. It used the > > internal disk shelf, so the builtin 810 > > fwiw, on my AS200 I just switched from ncr to sym and enabled PPS_SYNC, and > got two solid lockups in 12 hours. The source on this box is 4-stable from > about a month ago, so this weekend I'll try again with an up-to-date -stable > and see if the problem still exists, and whether it's sym or PPS_SYNC that's > causing the problem. Hmm, it crashed again with the old kernel (which ran fine for a month prior to yesterday). This is starting to look like a hardware problem - ugh! Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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