Hello,
In no time I've received a couple of responses, thanks to
Thomas Leitner <tom_at_radar.tu-graz.ac.at>
"Ronald D. Bowman" <rdbowma_at_tsi.clemson.edu>
Thomas stated (I've noticed in the archive that he's dealing with such a
motherboard):
> To make the long story short: Digital Unix does *not* support IDE
> Harddisks on this IDE Port. It only supports IDE CD-ROM drives.
> Then again, make sure that you have a CD-ROM drive which supports
> 512byte sectors. Many CD-ROM drives only support the PC block size
> of 2Kbytes/sector. Drives known to work are Toshiba and Plextor.
>
> This may change in the future, maybe with DU 4.0F.
>
> In the meanwhile your only option is to get a cheap NCR810 no-name
> SCSI controller. These parts can be had for about ATS 500,-- here
> in Austria. Be sure to get one without an on-board BIOS EPROM.
>
> This controller is perfectly supported by both, SRM and Digital Unix.
Otherwise, I was pretty sure that we waited for v4.0D and its support of
EIDE on these computers (it has been announced I think).
Thanks again.
Cheers
Dejan Muhamedagic dejan_at_yunix.co.yu
the question:
> Hello,
>
> I was about to install Digital UNIX on an AlphaPC164 (it has
> 21172 core chip and the 21164 at 433MHz). It has only built in
> EIDE ports, a CDROM (SAMSUNG) and a HDD (FUJITSU). The SRM is v5.3.
>
> The SRM recognizes both drives and is able to start booting from
> the CDROM. However, after loading it stops with the message
> about "bus timeout". This is an excerpt from the screen (there
> maybe typos or even lines missing):
>
> >>> boot dqa1
> ...
> pci0 at nexus
> trio0 at pci0 slot 5
> isa0 at pci0
> gpc0 at isa0
> ace0 at isa0
> lp0 at isa0
> fdi0 at isa0
> fd0 at fdi0 unit 0
> ata0 at pci0 slot 11
> ata0: CMD PCI0646
> cam_logger: CAM_ERROR packet
> cam_logger: bus 0
> ata_reset
> Reset failed - busy stayed set
> ss_perform_timeout
> timout on request on the bus, scheduled bus reset
> ...
>
>
> After third timeout the kernel reports that there's no dump
> device available.
>
> I think that v4.0D should support IDE devices for booting.
> However, now I can't find anything about it neither in SPD nor in
> the archive.
>
> If anybody can give a clue on how should I proceed... maybe buy a SCSI
> controller and forget about IDE?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Dejan Muhamedagic dejan_at_yunix.co.yu
Received on Wed Jan 27 1999 - 13:36:59 NZDT