From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 29 8:35:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F6CD37B5CD for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:35:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA11147; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:34:57 -0800 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:35:12 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Andre Severo Cc: Andrew Gallatin , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaServer 1000 freezing during installation In-Reply-To: <20000329111836.A10213@minmei.iqm.unicamp.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hmm. I wonder if this is what Michael Waite saw a couple of months ago. Do you have some console messages about this and the internal h/w configuration and layout? On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Andre Severo wrote: > At Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:51:10AM -0500, Andrew Gallatin claimed that: > |> > |> Andre Severo writes: > |> > > |> > The disk problem persists, though - i have to exerc them or else they > |> > are taken to be offline. > |> > |> I didn't understand that last bit -- can you explain what you mean by > |> "have to exerc them or else they are taken to be offline" ? > |> > > My apologies for such an obscure sentence =) > > What I meant by that was that I had to use the command "exerc" > on the srm monitor prior to the boot procedure to sort of > "warm up" the disks. > > Without this "warm up exercise" for a few seconds the disks are detected but > their size is not assessed (this failure is what I meant by > "taken to be offline"). > > I hope that helps. > > Regards, > > Andre > picapau@minmei.iqm.unicamp.br > > |> Thanks, > |> > |> 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message