Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 20:12:19 -0500 From: "Waite, Michael" <Michael.Waite@compaq.com> To: 'Mike Smith' <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Digital KZPCA setup, help required Message-ID: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2CE9@mroexc2.tay.dec.com>
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Forget about SRM. I just bought 10 brand new ES40s and I still have to use ARC to configure that damn things. Don't sweat it though. All you have to do is find any system that runs ARC. Any system. get the thing to come up and hit "F2" to run setup then scroll down and pick "run supplementary program" type in "a:ra200rcu.exe" ....provided that you have the floppie in the floppy drive. Of course you need to make sure that the computer is plugged in to the wall to but I left that part out. You will then need to blow away the old configureation and then make a new one. Unfortunatly you have to reset the busses every time tou make a changeto the RAID config so it will require two hard reboots. ------Mike -----Original Message----- From: Mike Smith [mailto:msmith@freebsd.org] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 8:01 PM To: Waite, Michael Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Digital KZPCA setup, help required > You do not run ra200rcu.exe from "SRM" you have to shitch to ARC. > WOrks perfectly fine. Confirgure it in are by choosing to "run a utility" > (or some such nonsence). > > Got it? Not entirely. I don't have the actual manuals for the KZPCA (it was in the first of the AS4100's you sent us apparently by accident), so I've been flying blind based on what I could pick up by searching the Compaq website. There were instructions there that suggested that the tools could be run from under SRM - the fat:ra200rcu.exe/dva0 syntax doesn't look like anything that ARC supports. 8) The real problem here is that my test box is the PC164, and I can't get ARC to come up on it at all; the most recent firmware update (contained in 400D4497.zip) doesn't want to work under the SRM that it's running (5.5-1). I only tested briefly with the DS20, and I may have gotten something wrong, so I guess I'll go back to it and try again. I assume that there are no SRM-hosted tools for setting the controller up? To answer your other questions; what I have is a KZPCA-XA, which appears to be a single-channel Mylex DAC960-PD with (very) old (2.42) firmware and 4M of RAM. Mylex have kindly supplied me with the documentation for this controller, and I wanted to try to make the trivial changes necessary to have it supported in the 4.0 release. I'd hope that the later controllers (those using the 3.x, 4.x and 5.x firmware will "just work" with some changes that I need to commit very soon. (I can't verify this as I don't have access to any of them; I've tested the 960PG and 1100PVX, and will be testing the 960PTL1 tomorrow.) Right now the single biggest issue is getting a configuration tool of some sort up and running, as there are as yet no FreeBSD-native tools for this. Thanks for the speedy responses. Regards, Mike Smith FreeBSD Test Labs -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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