From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net>
Message-Id: <200110231855.f9NItgv12762@ducky.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Alpha success (w/ clock.c bugfix and ether2114x.c update)
In-Reply-To: <20011023141755.6E6E119A09@mail.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:55:42 -0700
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>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.