From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Oct 15 10:41:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0905637B401 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 10:41:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from poptart.bithose.com (poptart.bithose.com [208.171.236.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 946EE43EAC for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 10:41:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jakari@bithose.com) Received: from poptart.bithose.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by poptart.bithose.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g9FHfUUG036247 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:41:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (jakari@localhost) by poptart.bithose.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id g9FHfUAp036245 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:41:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: poptart.bithose.com: jakari owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:41:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Jameel Akari To: Subject: Re: PC164 SRM firmware problem In-Reply-To: <20021015030414.P41308-100000@view.scoundrelz.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This thread reminds me of an issue with a PC164 system I was given recently. It was an NT/ARC system with a "NT-only" Symbios/NCR SCSi controller (i.e. doesn't show up in SRM). The SRM is whatever the latest Compaq update CD has on it, I forget the version at the moment. So I decided to try IDE disks. The thing is, it only sees the primary channels IDE master, and no other devices. That is, if you put a hard disk as primary master, it shows as dqa0. If you plug in a CDROM drive anywhere (primary/slave, secondary master or slave) it doesn't show up. If you disconnect the hard drive and put the CDROM in its place, you get it as dqa0 again. I booted a Linux floppy on the machine (dva0) and it kernel was able to find the dqa0 hard drive /and/ the undetected-by-SRM CDROM. End result was that a CDROM install worked fine when booted from floppy. But I'm still stuck where I can't boot from IDE CDROM (dqb0?) and install to the dqa0 disk. Netbooting is less that optimal since I might want to install Tru64 on it, and the's kinda ugly. Any pointers? #!/jameel/akari for zig in $(find / -name zig); do rm -f "$zig"; done; export GREAT_JUSTICE=1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message