Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:55:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha 4.x releases (production quality?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010181648300.32623-100000@spaz.huntsvilleal.com> In-Reply-To: <14829.41324.212080.318391@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Not really, I was more thinking of the problems people seem to have > installing 4.1.1. This particular case might be a firmware bug. > Multias have ancient firmware. At least shutdown -r now reboots every > alpha I have. And I have lots of different alphas. I understand that there is a firmware update out for the Multia (at least from my version of SRM) but in the interests of Keeping It Working, I've neglected to apply it. > However, I would never put a multia into production running any OS. > They're notoriously unreliable, hardware-wise. They were designed to > be glorified X terminals, not servers. I've already taken care of the heat problem, and use an external (Ex-Sun, ironicly) 1G hard drive. The 525 MB internal (laptop) drive gave out long ago. I'd say everything that has a good reason to fail has either already failed or been supplimented. I have a mini-Boxer bolted on to the original fan. Are there any other issues (like the 74F IC on the bottom that likes to overheat) that you can think of? I'd still like an answer on cross compiling... (please) ----- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. <kris@nospam.catonic.net> | ------------------------------------------------------- "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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