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Collin Baillie | 1 Apr 2002 09:15
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Digital PWS500a (Miata) SCSI Boot

Hi guys,

I have a friend's 500a box here, and I need to know what scsi controller he
needs to get to make it SCSI bootable from SRM?

I can't see any scsi connectors on the m/board, and there's a blanking plate
missing from the back, so I assume it had a scsi card in it which has been
removed. It also only has an 850mb ide hard disk. Obviously I will need a
scsi hdd, but which controller's work with SRM?

Is there a page online somewhere with this info?

Cheers,

Collin
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Riccardo.Veraldi | 1 Apr 2002 15:15
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Re: Digital PWS500a (Miata) SCSI Boot

With this device you will boot from SRM.
isp0: <Qlogic ISP 1020/1040 PCI SCSI Adapter>

ciao
Rick

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Collin Baillie wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I have a friend's 500a box here, and I need to know what scsi controller he
> needs to get to make it SCSI bootable from SRM?
>
> I can't see any scsi connectors on the m/board, and there's a blanking plate
> missing from the back, so I assume it had a scsi card in it which has been
> removed. It also only has an 850mb ide hard disk. Obviously I will need a
> scsi hdd, but which controller's work with SRM?
>
> Is there a page online somewhere with this info?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Collin
>
>
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Bill Collins | 1 Apr 2002 22:17
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Re: Who is booting Alpha AXP 150 (aka Jensen)


I also have a Jensen exhibiting the same problem.  Has anyone resolved
this?  (If someone has, please post the solution.  I wouldn't be suprised
if someone else would want to know.)  Thanks in advance...

	 				Bill

On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Andy V. Churaevsky wrote:
> I have:
> 
> 
> >>> show config
> DEC 2000 Model 300 AXP - ROM Version 2.2
> Copyright (c) 1993 Digital Equipment Corporation.
> 
> Alpha AXP SRM Firmware Version - 370
> VMS PAL X5.48/OSF PAL X1.35 - Built on 12-FEB-1996 13:08:14.13
> 
> Eisa Info       Devnam      Devstat
> ---------       ------      -------
>                 CPU         OK EV4 P3.0 6.6ns
>                 MEM         OK 64MB
>                 NVR         OK
>                 SCC         OK
>                 IT          OK
>                 KBD         OK
>                 LPT         OK
> 1
> 2
> 3
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Johan Danielsson | 2 Apr 2002 10:58
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Re: Digital PWS500a (Miata) SCSI Boot

"Collin Baillie" <sanac <at> optushome.com.au> writes:

> I have a friend's 500a box here, and I need to know what scsi
> controller he needs to get to make it SCSI bootable from SRM?

If you can't find a qlogic (isp) card, you might be able to get a
53c8xx (siop) to boot, somewhat depending on model. The same goes for
the IDE disk.

/Johan
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Ludovic Hirlimann | 3 Apr 2002 21:21
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Coredumping at boot time :(

Hi list.

When my alpha 1.5.2 NetBSD boots its send message while configuring its 
network interface I think. Then everything looks ok but :
I can't find any traces of coredumps :-(

What can I do to see if i really have coredumps hapening ? If I find 
some where should I send them ?

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Jarkko Teppo | 9 Apr 2002 08:05

X weirdness (TGA2, AS600, -current)

Hello!

I just recently got an Alphastation 600 with a TGA2. I installed 1.5.2,
tried X and the console froze (white background, black text). Chanted
my -current mantra for a while and upgraded to 1.5ZA.

Now X works, sort of. If I run the XalphaNetBSD without -noaccel it leaves
junk on the sides of windows (like when I move an xterm-window). This
doesn't happen with -noaccel. The main annoyance I've got is with the
colors. Now xdpyinfo and friends all agree that I've got an 1280x1024 8bpp
display, but it sure doesn't look like that. It's black and white and
no amount of cursing or kicking brings out any colors. rgb.* are in the
correct place. Even if I specify colors with directly I still get only
black (or white, depending where the scale tips).

What makes this even weirder is that when running lynx on these black and
white windows the link cursor shows up (correctly) as red. SRM is white on
blue so it's not a monitor/cable/temporary-color-blindness -thing.

XalphaNetBSD is from the latest snapshot, kernel from three days ago.
TGA reports itself as 1280x1024 8bpp T8_02.

Any help appreciated. The 600 is a really nice workstation, I even
got wss0 working. NetBSD rocks :)
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Jarkko Teppo | 10 Apr 2002 08:28

Re: X weirdness (TGA2, AS600, -current)

Jarkko Teppo said:

> XalphaNetBSD is from the latest snapshot, kernel from three days ago.
> TGA reports itself as 1280x1024 8bpp T8_02.

Aka PBXGB-AA aka Powerstorm 3D30. I even tried different resolutions
via the rotary switch on the card (the case-closed microswitch is a
nice touch on the 600 :-). Alas, no color. It works in VMS but this
has got me stumped.

I noticed that Matrox Millennium works with XFree86, but how about other
cards ? Could there be problems with SRM ?

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Roland Dowdeswell | 10 Apr 2002 19:12
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Re: X weirdness (TGA2, AS600, -current)


On 1018332303 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
"Jarkko Teppo" wrote:
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>I just recently got an Alphastation 600 with a TGA2. I installed 1.5.2,
>tried X and the console froze (white background, black text). Chanted
>my -current mantra for a while and upgraded to 1.5ZA.

Hmmm, I've never seen this one happen on my Powerstorm 3d30, but
currently my 8bit card isn't in my machine.  I'll plug it in in a
few hours and see if I can duplicate any of these symptoms.  I have
used this card as an Xserver on my PWS433a for a number of months
and haven't had any of the colour problems that you mention, although
the accelerations in the Xserver don't seem to work properly on
the 21164 machines presumably due to better write re-ordering.  I
looked into the acceleration problem briefly a while ago (which is
when I added the -noaccel switch), but couldn't quite figure out
what was going on.  Unfortunately, I then quickly got distracted
by my job.

Could you send the exact dmesg lines that the TGA2 puts out so that
I can make sure that our cards aren't too different?

Thanks,

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Jarkko Teppo | 11 Apr 2002 07:51

Re: X weirdness (TGA2, AS600, -current)

Roland Dowdeswell said:
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> Could you send the exact dmesg lines that the TGA2 puts out so that I
> can make sure that our cards aren't too different?
>

I've got two different cards:

tga0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0: TGA2 pass 2, board type T8-02
tga0: 1024 x 768, 8bpp, Bt485 RAMDAC
tga0: interrupting at kn20aa irq 16
wsdisplay0 at tga0: console (std, vt100 emulation)

and (I haven't tested this with the AS600:

tga0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0: DC21030 step C, board type T8-02
tga0: 1280 x 1024, 8bpp, Bt485 RAMDAC
tga0: interrupting at kn20aa irq 16
wsdisplay0 at tga0 (kbdmux ignored): console (std, vt100 emulation)

The latter one has dip-switches accessible from the outside (ie. near
the VGA connector) while the first one doesn't. I can provide
chip/serial -numbers if needed. Oh yeah, I managed to get color, once.
With a .xinitrc containing only "exec xterm" and starting another
xterm with "xterm -bg red" gave me an xterm with red background.
After that all the other colors failed.

I also tried a few PC cards, Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 and ATI Rage II.
The Rage II wasn't recognized by SRM and the kernel sees it as
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Roland Dowdeswell | 11 Apr 2002 10:08
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Re: X weirdness (TGA2, AS600, -current)


On 1018504295 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
"Jarkko Teppo" wrote:
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>I've got two different cards:
>
>tga0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0: TGA2 pass 2, board type T8-02
>tga0: 1024 x 768, 8bpp, Bt485 RAMDAC
>tga0: interrupting at kn20aa irq 16
>wsdisplay0 at tga0: console (std, vt100 emulation)

So, I was using a 32bit TGA2 (which is a bit different on the colour
front), so I just switched it out for my 8bit variant, they look
like the same card, although I am not using mine as a console[1].

tga0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0: TGA2 pass 2, board type T8-02
tga0: 1280 x 1024, 8bpp, Bt485 RAMDAC
tga0: interrupting at dec 550 irq 8
wsdisplay0 at tga0 kbdmux 1

My system is:

$ uname -a
NetBSD arioch.imrryr.org 1.5ZA NetBSD 1.5ZA (ARIOCH) #0: Tue Feb  5 11:55:45 EST 2002    
elric <at> arioch.imrryr.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/ARIOCH alpha

and I am running X with the colour working properly [right now,
writing this email], so the problem may be subtle or perhaps a
newer bug than my kernel.  The Xserver that I'm running is the one
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