Subject: RE: Multia won't boot
To: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
From: John Hayward <John.C.Hayward@wheaton.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/27/2001 22:32:04
The E215 chip looks fine.  I'll clip the yellow wires and try replacing
the battery.
johnh...

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, David Woyciesjes wrote:

> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:13:26 -0400
> From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
> To: 'John Hayward' <John.C.Hayward@wheaton.edu>, port-alpha@netbsd.org
> Subject: RE: Multia won't boot
> 
> 	How was the airflow and cooling on your Multia? If you look at the
> bottom of the board, how does the E215 chip look? Hopefully it's not burnt
> (Heat Death...)
> 
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> 
> ! -----Original Message-----
> ! From: John Hayward [mailto:John.C.Hayward@wheaton.edu]
> ! Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:02 PM
> ! To: port-alpha@netbsd.org
> ! Subject: Multia won't boot
> ! 
> ! 
> ! Dear NetBSDers,
> !    I had an Multia running for some time.  I've had 
> ! NetBSD-1.5 running on
> ! it.  It had been serving as a NAT machine, web server, imap 
> ! server etc on 
> ! my DSL line.  About 6 weeks ago i noticed some halts while
> ! running.  
> !    Sometimes when I attempted to reboot it seemed to stop 
> ! before it got to
> ! the SRM console information - the monitor would indicate it 
> ! was recieving
> ! no signal before anything was displayed.  Sometimes it would boot but 
> ! hang part way thru the messages.  Other times it would boot and
> ! seem to run for several days.
> !    About 5 weeks ago TELOCITY DSL went out and was out for 4 
> ! weeks.  I was
> ! gone on vacation duing the last part of this time and when I came back
> ! last night I could not get the Multia to ever get to the point I could
> ! see anything on the monitor.  I removed the NCR SCSI controler, PCI
> ! eithernet card, reseated memory, tried some other memory all 
> ! to no avail.
> !    Previously I had trouble (of a different sort) and several people
> ! suggested getting a new clock battery.  I think that was 
> ! about a 15 months
> ! ago.
> !    Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> !    I also would be interested in getting the info off the SCSI
> ! disk.  Should I be able to access this from a VAX or MIPS 
> ! machine or is
> ! the 64 bit integers/indianess going to be an issue?
> ! 
> ! TIA
> ! johnh...
> ! 
>