Chris,

When you say it doesn't work, are you getting any sign of 
a controller in the kernel boot messages when you netboot?
Is it recognizing the controller and just not recognizing
the drive, or does it see zilch?  If it does see the controller,
what address is it reporting for it?

Doug


On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, chris wrote:

> Douglas Meade wrote:
> 
> > Chris,
> >
> > I've got several of these board sets, and I was just playing around
> > with one last night.  It, too, had been set to the secondary address
> > like yours, and when I tried to reset it to the default, I forgot
> > to change the jumper (after just posting this information!). Anyway,
> > I just checked 4 different boards, and the jumper is there on all of them.
> > It's on the M7164, the same one with the dip switches, just above
> > the second "hand" that inserts into the bus.  The label below says
> > "W1  TP5".  With the default configuration, the jumper looks like this:
> >    |---|
> >    | o |
> >    |   |
> >    | o |   o
> >    |---|
> >
> >   W1    TP5
> >
> > At the secondary address, it looks like this:
> >
> >      o
> >   |-----------|
> >   |  o     o  |
> >   |-----------|
> >   W1      TP5
> >
> > I spent about an hour last night trying to figure out why my
> > KA650 would hang in the Boot Prom test, until I remembered to
> > set this jumper to the first position above.
> >
> > I'm not sure, but I think that the second diagram above is equivalent
> > to having the jumper removed, which may be your case.  Then all you
> > need to do is go grab a jumper from one of those dead ESDI drives you
> > probably have lying around, and stick it on.
> >
> 
> Unfortunately this doesn't work too :-(
> Maybe the KDA50 doesn't like my DEQNA. It's address is 17774440 (default).
> Also, the DEQNA is intalled after the KDA50 on the bus.
> Any ideas ?
> 
> Regards - Chris
>