On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 14:50, Roland E. Lipovits wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:53:29PM +0100, Michael Schneider wrote:
> > No, i've been using this combination for several weeks now without
> > problem. And no, you can't and don't have to disable the on-board DSSI.
> 
> Have you connected your drives as Chuck told me (KA640-DRIVES-KFQSA)
> or taken the onboard DSSS-connector and plugged it into the KFQSA
> as I tried yesterday?

"Chuck-Style".
I never tried running a KFQSA diskless...

> 
> > it was the CPU that was too old; i've got an KA640 with newer hardware
> > revision and never had a problem since.
> 
> Where can I see what hw-rev. my KA640 is and what are the two
> revsions you have tried? I too have two KA640s here, so perhaps
> I could avoid trouble if I take the right one from the beginning.

The working CPU board has a sticker 

	DATE 10.4.92	ETCH F1
	REV.CODE PR	REV. B1

and two hand-soldered wires. I guess that's what DEC called a "field
upgrade"...
The EPROMS are labelled

	 DEC90		 DEC90
	LM9103		LM9108
	188E7		189E7

The faulty board has no special markings, the EPROMS are labelled

	 DEC89		 DEC89
	LM9013		LM9013
	190E7		191E7

Otherwise, i see no visible difference..
I hope that helps.

> 
> > But netbooting always worked. What exactly is your problem?
> 
> after writing
> | 2..
> |-ESA0
> 
> there was nothing for a long time and then some errormessage.
> And the logs of my box running the mopd showed no request.

Hmmmm, and you are using on-board ethernet?

> 
> If I try next time I'll write it down, and yes it would have been 
> good if I had done this already yesterday, I know.  ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> Lipo
> 
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