Greetings,
Thanks to all that responded to my mail.
Here's a re-cap of events.
The Install Manual states that when upgrading from v2.0 to v3.0, that a
console firmware upgrade should be done also. That's fine, but what it
failed to include is that you need ECU 1.5 or higher to re-configure the
EISA bus after the firmware upgrade blows the config out of the water. I
was informed by Digital that the new ECU should have been included in the
upgrade kit, but alas it was not.
Moral of the story: Triple check revision levels, double checking just won't
cut it.
Main Trouble was:
The upgrade of the Firmware upgrade the SRM and ARC firmware on the
console. ECU would not run, so I tried downgrading the firmware back to the
original level. The downgrade downgraded the SRM firmware but not the ARC
firmware. Boom, ECU still would not run, so it was upgrade and pray for an
ECU Diskette. ECU is Proprietary software licensed to Micro Computer
Systems, Inc. It does not exist on any ftp server that I found, with one
execption, extra config files for Windows NT are available on ftp.dec.com
or gatekeeper.dec.com (same machine)
in /pub/DEC/ALPHA/ecu/NT
Minimum Revision Levels needed to run v3.0b
SRM - v3.8
ARC - v3.5
ECU - 1.5
Emulation software 1.07
My local DEC Rep delivered the new ECU Diskette this morning. I had the
system up by 2:00.
Little quirks to look for:
V2.0 pays no attention to the user PAK, it automatically allows unlimited.
v3.0 does require a valid user PAK (coincedence that our Campus User PAK
arrived in the mail this morning.)
If having trouble mounting an iso9000 cd using mount -t cdfs, make sure
option cdfs is in the Kernal config file and Rebuild the Kernal.
Thanks again to everyone, looks like my machine is back up on the new system.
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Brian Rowan | .
Systems Analyst |
Hampden-Sydney College |
Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943 |
(804) 223-6208 |
brianr_at_lion.hsc.edu |
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Received on Mon Jul 10 1995 - 21:48:41 NZST