After spending the better part of half a day on
this, I've suddenly realised that it's best not
to stick the SCSI cable into the parallel/printer
port. Anyway, figured I'd share this with you all,
embarassing as it is :)
chas (who has just learned the dangers
of coming from a Mac background. but, hey,
i learned more than i had intended about
devices and firmware today)
At 12:59 PM 3/17/98 +0800, chas wrote:
>Alphastation 200 4/166 - connected an external
>Apple CDROM (which my predecessor used to install
>the OS). I've tried every SCSI number on the
>external CDROM, cycling power between each
>attempt. (and 3 SCSI cables with each combination,
>trusting in voodoo as I do).
>
>No matter what, "show dev" reveals :
>
>dka0.0.0.6.0 DKA Quantum Fireball thingy
>dva0.0.0.0.1 DVA0
>ewa0.0.0.11.0 EWA0 08-00-2B-E5-54-F5
>dka0.7.0.6.0 PKA0 SCSI BUS ID 7
>
>"isacfg -all" had zero effect.
>
>Due to this, I couldn't upgrade firmware from the CDROM
>so downloaded the latest version from ftp.digital.com
>and that went fine.
>
>Anyway, if it weren't for the knowledge that the
>current OS (DU3.2) was installed with this very
>same CDROM drive, I'd have bet it was a hardware
>incompatibility.
>
>Are there any other checks for getting the Alphastation to
>recognise the SCSI / external CDROM ?
>
>Thanks indeed,
>
>chas
>
>
>
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Received on Tue Mar 17 1998 - 07:48:26 NZST