From: Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Alpha success (w/ clock.c bugfix and ether2114x.c update)
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:55:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200110231855.f9NItgv12762@ducky.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011023141755.6E6E119A09@mail.cse.psu.edu>
>I spent a frustrating couple of days
>trying to get it to work which involved a lot of power-cycling of the
>Alpha due to the nature of the problem and eventually the Alpha just
>said enough and refused to work at all.
Did you check to see if the power supply gave out? If it's a PC164
board, it's a standard ATX power supply, except you just have to wire
the power-on line to a mechanical switch. Failed power supplies are
the bane of PC's and PC-like hardware.
I've also had a frustrating time with DEC ethernet cards. The 21143-based
DE-500 that I have does not do autonegotiation correctly. I finally got a
cheapo 100mbps fixed speed hub to wire it to and gave up on full duplex.
I wouldn't call this an Alpha problem, I would call it a DEC ethernet
card problem--I see the same behavior when I put it in a PC.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-23 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-23 14:17 jmk
2001-10-23 14:35 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-10-23 20:32 ` Matthew Hannigan
2001-10-23 22:26 ` Dan Cross
2001-10-25 4:36 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-25 6:06 ` andrey mirtchovski
2001-11-05 10:21 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-11-05 11:42 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-23 14:56 ` Sam Ducksworth
2001-10-23 17:25 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-10-23 18:55 ` Mike Haertel [this message]
2001-10-23 19:23 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-10-23 20:17 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-10-23 20:26 ` andrey
2001-10-23 20:36 ` Ronald G Minnich
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-05 5:32 okamoto
2001-10-25 1:13 okamoto
2001-10-23 20:41 rob pike
2001-10-23 14:58 jmk
2001-10-23 14:00 jmk
2001-10-22 14:11 jmk
2001-10-23 4:53 ` Mike Haertel
2001-10-23 5:54 ` George Bronnikov
2001-10-22 7:54 Mike Haertel
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