On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 09:08:22PM -0800, David Hopper wrote:
> Found it.  It's an SRM boot disk (mkboot fwupdate.exe), ARC 5.69 right from
> the website at  ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/alphant/abpw433v569.zip.
> (Dunno why this didn't work with the ARC 5.70 firmware update...)  File this
> away for anyone else that manages to fry a Miata.
> 
> As far as the Multia goes, it would have to buzz the floppy in distress.  Get
> mkboot from ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/utilities, and try
> an fwupdate.exe for the platform at
> ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/.
> 
> Back to square one.  My thoughts are that DEC removed the SRM-switch

No, I have 7.0 on my PWS433a and that had me select SRM just fine.

> capability from the 500a ARC setup menu as of the earliest firware update I've
> got, 5.3.  Is there a source for deprecated firmware, one that will allow me
> to select SRM on this thing?


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