From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri May 11 7:28:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50C3837B424 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 07:28:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA27062; Fri, 11 May 2001 10:28:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f4BERvD83909; Fri, 11 May 2001 10:27:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15099.63213.622578.520701@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:27:57 -0400 (EDT) To: Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it Cc: , Subject: Re: DEC 3000/600 In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it writes: > > I just got a DEC 3000/600 > > When it starts up the monitor display a sort of graphic tests then nothing > happens I Expect to see hte SRM console prompt but the block white > cursor goes in the lower left corner and nothing happens even if I type > on the keyboard. Anyone could suggest me anything ?? It sounds like the console may be set to serial, so you may have to connect up a serial terminal -- I've forgotten if the turbochannel alphas will do console I/O from/to a source other than their current console. > THen how is this workstation?? is it better or worse than dec3000/300 ?? > thanks It should be quite a bit better that a 3000/300. FWIW, you probably want to take freebsd-alpha off your CC list for issues with this machine. We don't support the SCSI contoller or the graphics / keyboard console on turbochannel machines. NetBSD does a far better job of device support on these boxes. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message