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Havard Eidnes | 20 Mar 2002 01:13
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1.5.3_RC1 snapshot available

Hi,

I've placed a 1.5.3_RC1 snapshot available in

  pub/NetBSD/arch/alpha/snapshot/20020312-1.5.3_RC1/

on the ftp server; it'll spread to the mirrors over the next few
days.

Please note that this snapshot does not have the fix for the recently
discovered zlib problem, it will be in 1.5.3, though.

I'll also have to apologize for the time it's taken to cut this one.

Regards,

- Håvard
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Phil Lamovie | 20 Mar 2002 18:09

EISA SCSI


Apologies for the cross post but I can't remember who
was looking for EISA SCSI from digital/compaq

The text of the auction is as follows...

Pile of EISA cards, condition unknown but I assume they
work as they came from working servers.
2 Adaptec SCSI cards,
2 Digital SCSI Cards and
1 3COM Ethernet. P & H $8 to most places in Australia.

There is a reasonable photo of the cards

 http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2010520247
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Michael G. Schabert | 21 Mar 2002 10:04
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telnet localhost w/o IPv6 network

Hi guys,
I'm running 1.5ZC current on an AlphaStation 200, with a custom 
kernel. The kernel is basically a pared-down GENERIC, getting rid of 
devices I don't have. The only things added to the kernel config are 
uncommenting options/netatalk and changing the two instances of "pms" 
to "pmsi". I left in IPv6 support, but am not running any IPv6 
network, & have nothing setup wrt that. I was testing a daemon, & 
tried "telnet localhost ###" (### being requested port) and the 
everything came to a grinding halt. All disk i/o stopped, all remote 
sessions stopped responding. I had X running on the TGA console, 
which aparently just had not cleared and moved back into console 
mode. But I found that no matter what port I requested, this would 
happen. When doing it when not running X, I could see that what 
really happened was that I dropped into the debugger. Here's what was 
on screen:

CPU 0	trap entry = 0x2 (memory management fault)
CPU 0	a0	= 0x10
CPU 0	a1	=	0x1
CPU 0	a2	=	0x0
CPU 0	pc	=	0xfffffc0000465610
CPU 0	ra	=	0xfffffc00004655fc
CPU 0	pv	=	0xfffffc00005f0fec
CPU 0	curproc	=	fffffc0001aace70
CPU 0	pid	=	1152, comm	=	telnet

panic: trap
stopped in pid 1152 (telnet) at cpu_debugger+0x4:	ret	zero,(ra)

Note that I can successfully connect to myself if I use 192.168.1.1,
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jochen.kmietsch | 23 Mar 2002 19:23
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Exabyte EXB-8500 series on NetBSD 1.5.2

Hello!

After I finally gave up trying to compile apps from source myself and settled
for those in the pkgsrc-tree, I am not all that mad at my Alpha with NetBSD
anymore, since those indeed work.  Some of them are quite old, but at least
they compile.
Right now it's quite a nice NFS and XDM server, humming away in the basement,
good that the X-terminal is a Linux PC so I can run a Netscape on it :)
Anyway, what I wanted to tell was, that, following this post
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=2155
I could get my Exabyte 8500 to actually write in 8500 format and get twice as
much on a tape as before, the unmodified kernel made it write in 8200 mode.
Had to do some modifications here and there since that post was based on an
old kernel, but it is working now.

Jochen
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Chris Price | 24 Mar 2002 06:27
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PC164 won't boot - 6 beeps at post


	Hi;

	Just inherited a PC164 barebones system from someones storeroom.
According to the guy I got the system from, 'It was working when it 
was put away'. Unfortunately the system gives 6 beeps at boot time, and 
never seems to intialize its video card/display (PCI Diamond Stealth
2000).

	I've read the archives and the 6 beep post error code 
seems to mostly concern itself with wrong memory type in the system. 
I also replaced the system battery since a couple of posts referenced
bad/dead battery problems and 6 beeps.

	The board came with 4 SIMMS that read:

	CELESTICA 16MB FPM
	4M x 36 60NS 5.0V

	The SIMMS have 8 small chips and 1 large chip *on one 
side only* - the other side is empty.

	I have jumper J1 'on' (ie: a jumper installed across the 
pins) and the SIMMS installed in SIM0 thru SIM4 (J5-J8).

	I've cleaned the contacts on the simms with a pink eraser and
then wiped them with a q-tip and rubbing alcohol to get the crap off 
them. No simm slot contacts seem bent or corroded

	I am at a loss on how to proceed. Are 6 beeps 'bad'? Should
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Lars | 25 Mar 2002 10:53

Re: PC164 won't boot - 6 beeps at post


On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Chris Price wrote:

>
>
> 	Hi;
>
> 	Just inherited a PC164 barebones system from someones storeroom.
> According to the guy I got the system from, 'It was working when it
> was put away'. Unfortunately the system gives 6 beeps at boot time, and
> never seems to intialize its video card/display (PCI Diamond Stealth
> 2000).
>
> 	I've read the archives and the 6 beep post error code
> seems to mostly concern itself with wrong memory type in the system.
> I also replaced the system battery since a couple of posts referenced
> bad/dead battery problems and 6 beeps.
>
> 	The board came with 4 SIMMS that read:
>
> 	CELESTICA 16MB FPM
> 	4M x 36 60NS 5.0V
>
> 	The SIMMS have 8 small chips and 1 large chip *on one
> side only* - the other side is empty.
>
> 	I have jumper J1 'on' (ie: a jumper installed across the
> pins) and the SIMMS installed in SIM0 thru SIM4 (J5-J8).
>
> 	I've cleaned the contacts on the simms with a pink eraser and
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Chris Price | 26 Mar 2002 05:26
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was re: PC164 won't boot NOW: SROM initialization post codes (LONG)


	Thanks for all your replies so far. Here's most of my original 
post;

> >       Just inherited a PC164 barebones system from someones storeroom.
> > According to the guy I got the system from, 'It was working when it
> > was put away'. Unfortunately the system gives 6 beeps at boot time, and
> > never seems to intialize its video card/display (PCI Diamond Stealth
> > 2000).
> >

	So tonight I got a serial connection to the SROM debug port (J31).
Here's what I see when I turn the system on;

21164A.01.02.03.04.05.06.07.08.09.0b.0c.0f.13.14.15.3f.06.3f.06.3f.06.3f.06.3f.0
6.3f.06.3f.06.3f.06.3f.06.3f.06.3f.06

	if I am reading this correctly, the boot sequence is buggering up with
a '3f' code right after post code 15. I found a great doc that details
each step, 
here's the summary;

	00 Firmware initialization is complete
	01 CPU speed detected
	02 CPU speed converted
	03 Configuration jumpers read
	04 Bcache configuration value computed
	05 Bcache control value computed
	06 Bcache turned off
	07 Memory timing registers written
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Lars | 27 Mar 2002 10:15

Password lenght


lo mate's

I know ive asked this before, but are there no ways of getting 1.5.2 using
longer passwords tehn 8 chars? without going to current as ive heard can
do this.

Lars

Cell: +46 70 328 02 46
Mail: cryptr <at> cryptr.net
Home: http://www.cryptr.net/

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der Mouse | 27 Mar 2002 16:10
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Re: Password lenght

> I know ive asked this before, but are there no ways of getting 1.5.2
> using longer passwords tehn 8 chars?

I'm pretty sure NetBSD has handled longer passwords since well before
the 1.5 branch, even.  I have long-password code of my own in my
libcrypt, but the libcrypt I started with already had some such
support.

What makes you think long passwords aren't supported?

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Andrey Shapovalov | 27 Mar 2002 17:36

DEC 3000/700, PMAD-A, 1.5.2

Greetings,

I'm playing with a DEC 3000/700 that has an onboard le0 (at ioasic0) and
le1, 2, and 3 on TC (all three are PMAD-A). I'm running 1.5.2. le0 works
just fine. Can't configure the TC cards. After issuing "ifconfig" for any
of those, I get many "Reg did not settle" messages in my terminal
session and on the serial console. I've read about people having the same
problem and I've never been able to find anyone who has resolved it. Is it
still not fixed?

The error messages also appear in dmesg. Here it is:

### BEGIN
[ preserving 448616 bytes of netbsd ELF symbol table ]
consinit: using prom console
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.5.2 (GENERIC) #37: Sat Aug 18 10:02:07 MEST 2001
    he <at> albatross.urc.uninett.no:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/GENERIC
DEC 3000 - M700, 225MHz
8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
total memory = 128 MB
(2048 KB reserved for PROM, 126 MB used by NetBSD)
avail memory = 110 MB
using 819 buffers containing 6552 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), 21064A-3 (pass 2)
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