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List:       freebsd-alpha
Subject:    Re: AlphaServer 1000 freezing during installation
From:       Matthew Jacob <mjacob () feral ! com>
Date:       2000-03-29 16:35:12
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Hmm. I wonder if this is what Michael Waite saw a couple of months ago.
Do you have some console messages about this and the internal h/w
configuration and layout?


On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Andre Severo wrote:

> At Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:51:10AM -0500, Andrew Gallatin claimed that:
> |> 
> |> Andre Severo writes:
> |>  > 
> |>  > The disk problem persists, though - i have to exerc them or else they
> |>  > are taken to be offline.              
> |> 
> |> I didn't understand that last bit -- can you explain what you mean by
> |> "have to exerc them or else they are taken to be offline" ?
> |> 
> 
> My apologies for such an obscure sentence =)
> 
> What I meant by that was that I had to use the command "exerc"
> on the srm monitor prior to the boot procedure to sort of 
> "warm up" the disks.
> 
> Without this "warm up exercise" for a few seconds the disks are detected but 
> their size is not assessed (this failure is what I meant by
> "taken to be offline"). 
> 
> I hope that helps.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andre
> picapau@minmei.iqm.unicamp.br
> 
> |> Thanks,
> |> 
> |> Drew
> |> 
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> |> Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer	http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin
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