DEC KZPSC

[Wilko Bulte]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 02:42:19PM -0600, Douglas K. Rand wrote..
> Doug> I've found myself the owner of a Digital KZPSC-XB card. Just the card. :)
> 
> Doug> I've got a couple of problems: The card doesn't seem to be
> Doug> probed either by the SRM or detected by the mlx driver.
> 
> Wilko> Is this the install kernel, so from the boot cd?  What version
> Wilko> FreeBSD are you using?
> 
> Nope. (I should have made the clear in the first post, sorry.) I have
> a working FreeBSD 6-STABLE on a SCSI disk connected to the onboard
> controller. The kernel config is attached.

Well... not really afaics?

> Doug> And that message goes away if I boot the system with out the
> Doug> card. The output of "ls -l" in the SRM doesn't show any
> Doug> additional or missing devices when booted with or without the
> Doug> card.
> 
> Wilko> Hmm...  What firmware is on the card?  There are 1 or 2 flash
> Wilko> ROMS which have a sticker on their back.  IIRC the older KZPSC
> Wilko> only have one chip, with 2.x (2.73???  memory is very dim
> Wilko> here).
> 
> There are two sockets for flash ROMs on the card: U34 and U47. U34 is
> empty, and U47 is labled:
> 
>    615156-F02
>    V2.42
>    U47
>    DEC

Does not sound too bad.  That empty socket sounds OK.  There were dual-flash
models out there that the DEC PC division sold.  They had bigger firmware
images that (I think) did not work on Alpha.

> Wilko> Well.. I just found a ZIPed copy of a 2003 floppy for the SWXCR
> Wilko> card for (I hope..) Alpha.  I can send you a copy in private
> Wilko> email if you want.
> 
> That'd be nice.  (Assuming that rev 2.42 of the ROM doesn't make this
> a door stop.)  

I do not think so.

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org