From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 11:24: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe47.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.240.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6787D37B68A for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 11:23:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephenyw@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 20648 invoked by uid 65534); 4 Apr 2000 18:23:45 -0000 Message-ID: <20000404182345.20647.qmail@hotmail.com> X-Originating-IP: [202.41.160.40] From: "Stephen Yip" To: , , Cc: "Customer Support" , "Sales" , "Technical Support" Subject: <<<<>>>>> Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:25:48 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0074_01BF9EA6.4116DB80" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0074_01BF9EA6.4116DB80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear support team of Free BSD, =20 We are a company who looking for high performance and Open Platform yet = very stables machines. So we have chose Free BSD 4.0 as our OS for it = is configurable, high compatibility and yet high performance. Also our = existing hardware (see below) is on your compatibility list too. =20 Machine: Microway UP2000 (Class TSUNAMI) CPU: Alpha 21264CPU RAID card: AMI Mega RAID Enterprise 1500 RAID card and Elite 1500 =20 However, when we have installed the RAID card on the machine and then = boot it, it shows the following error message: =20 amr0: mem 0x40000000-0x4000ffff irq 27 at device 8.1 on = pci0 amr0: interrupting at TSUNAMI irq 27 amr0: I/O error 0xffff amr0: controller wedged (not taking command) amr0: could not obtain configuration data from controller =20 We waved our hands to Microway and Alpha Processor Institute (who is the = developer of the mainboard), but we got only NEGATIVE feedback, said = they don=92t have such case. Despite of our disappointment and anger, = we have tried to fix it by ourselves too, but it gets only similar error = message. So we write to you expertise, hoping you can help us. We are = urgent to get through this bottleneck, in which it totally stuck-up = everything for an unreasonable long time! Whatever solution or = information, or even any idea forward to us soon will be very = appreciated! =20 Thanks very much for your attention. =20 Yours faithfully, Stephen Yip ------=_NextPart_000_0074_01BF9EA6.4116DB80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Dear=20 support team of Free BSD,

We=20 are a company who looking for high performance and Open Platform yet = very=20 stables machines. So we = have chose=20 Free BSD 4.0 as our OS for it is configurable, high compatibility and = yet high=20 performance. Also our = existing=20 hardware (see below) is on your compatibility list = too.

Machine:=20 Microway UP2000 (Class TSUNAMI)

CPU:=20 Alpha 21264CPU

RAID=20 card: AMI Mega RAID Enterprise 1500 RAID card and Elite=20 1500

However,=20 when we have installed the RAID card on the machine and then boot it, it = shows=20 the following error message:

amr0:=20 <AMI Mega RAID> mem 0x40000000-0x4000ffff irq 27 at device 8.1 on=20 pci0

amr0:=20 interrupting at TSUNAMI irq 27

amr0:=20 I/O error 0xffff

amr0:=20 controller wedged (not taking command)

amr0:=20 could not obtain configuration data from = controller

We=20 waved our hands to Microway and Alpha Processor Institute (who is the = developer=20 of the mainboard), but we got only NEGATIVE feedback, said they don=92t = have such=20 case. Despite of our = disappointment=20 and anger, we have tried to fix it by ourselves too, but it gets only = similar=20 error message. So we = write to you=20 expertise, hoping you can help us. =20 We are urgent to get through this bottleneck, in which it totally = stuck-up everything for an unreasonable long time! Whatever solution or = information, or=20 even any idea forward to us soon will be very=20 appreciated!

Thanks=20 very much for your attention.

Yours=20 faithfully,

Stephen=20 Yip

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