Subject: Re: Who is booting Alpha AXP 150 (aka Jensen)
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Andy V. Churaevsky <ulysses@tot.zp.ua>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/26/2001 10:52:29
Hi!
In the old archive of mail i'm read mail from MR. Jason R. Thorpe about
booting JENSEN
At 07/12/2000 his wrote that " Jensen system woks!"  and post your dmesg.

Somebody do that ?



Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 3:38 AM
Subject: Re: Who is booting Alpha AXP 150 (aka Jensen)


> On Tuesday 25 December 2001 10:30, Andy V. Churaevsky wrote:
> > I have:
>
> > eisa0 at jensenio0
> > ahb0 at eisa0 slot 2: Adaptec AHA-1742A SCSI
> > ahb0: interrupting at eisa irq 12
> > scsibus0 at ahb0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
> > isa0 at jensenio0
> > fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
> > fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>     This is normal. There is still some debugging to do in the driver code
> somewhere. I the real problem is that the developers do not have access
> to a machine.
>
>      I wish I could be of help as I would love to run NetBSD on at least
one
> of my 3 Jensens.  I have RedHat running on two of them but it is such a
pig
> as to be not very usefull. I wish I was enough of a kernel hacker to be
able
> to fix it myself, there are a lot of Jensens in existance.
>
>     One of my ideas was to run NetBSD on one of my Alphastations and look
> at the source and go from there. Would any of the NetBSD developers be
> able to lend me a hand?
>
>     Another alternative is for me to donate a machine to the developers.
Would
> anyone be interested? I am in Canada so shipping and customs would be some
> hassle, but if its within reason I would be happy to contribute a machine.
>
> Cheers,
>
> </Duane>
>