Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:35:12 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Andre Severo <picapau@minmei.iqm.unicamp.br> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaServer 1000 freezing during installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003290834240.25230-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <20000329111836.A10213@minmei.iqm.unicamp.br>
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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
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