Subject: Re: Trying to install 1.5 on the Jensen
To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
From: Istvan Gyenes <frts@simba.sch.bme.hu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/08/2001 23:54:20
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilko Bulte" <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To: "Istvan Gyenes" <frts@simba.sch.bme.hu>
Cc: "Duane Eddingfield" <deddingf@home.com>; <port-alpha@netbsd.org>;
<decay@lists.maths.monash.edu.au>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: Trying to install 1.5 on the Jensen


> > I don't think so. I think it more depends on what kind of EISA cards you
> > have.
> > I have 2 Jensens, one of them is a "full" one (DE425,QVision,AHA1742A)
the
> > other
> > only has an AHA1742A and doesn't have other EISA cards.
> > Both of the SCSI controllers have rev G.2 eprom. The first ("full") one
> > crashes at boot with a fatal
> > kernel trap (at least it crashed the last time I tried), the second one
> > hangs with a floppy timeout.
> > I don't know if it's EISA card dependent or not, but it looks like.
>
> Is the EISA config identically configured using the ECU? Just a wild
guess..
>

The short answer is : Yes.
But the second one has firmware rev 1.7, the first one's 2.2. I'll update
the firmware to 2.2 on the second and see what happens.

The second one's config:
>>> sho conf
DEC 2000 Model 300 AXP - ROM Version 1.7
Copyright (c) 1993 Digital Equipment Corporation.

Alpha AXP SRM Firmware Version - 32f
VMS PAL X5.48/OSF PAL X1.35 - Built on  9-JAN-1995 15:44:02.90

Eisa Info       Devnam      Devstat
---------       ------      -------
                CPU         OK EV4 P3.0 6.6ns
                MEM         OK 96MB
                NVR         OK
                SCC         OK
                IT          OK
                KBD         OK
                LPT         OK
1
2
3
4
5
6 ADP0002       SCSI        OK