From: Dru <andru@treshna.com>
To: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Kernel lockup on alpha with heavy IO
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:01:11 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <408FAB17.3090305@treshna.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040427201013.A14559@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:01:32PM +1200, Dru wrote:
>
>
>>I am not having much luck with the firmware upgrade.
>>It gets up to saying Copying up1500fw.txt from dva0 . . . and
>>just sits there. It never reachs albasrm.rom file.
>>
>>
>
>Well, it was about 1.5 years ago when I upgraded the firmware last
>time, so I don't recall all details... Anyway, from memory:
>- make sure that you get to SRM prompt right after reset or
> powerup, i.e. 'auto_action' is set to 'halt';
>- IIRC, UP1500 has problems with some floppy drives, and it
> may require 2-3 resets before it reads the rom image file
> successfully.
>
>
>
Finally got firmware to update, the up1500 board is a bit
sturburn. Many repeated attempts and changing around
floppy drives was successful. thanks for the help.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-28 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-26 2:37 PROBLEM: Kernel lockup on alpha with heavy IO Dru
2004-04-26 4:15 ` viro
2004-04-26 7:09 ` Dru
2004-04-26 8:19 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-04-26 9:13 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
[not found] ` <408E3D8C.8090504@treshna.com>
[not found] ` <20040427201013.A14559@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
2004-04-28 13:01 ` Dru [this message]
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