Subject: Re: Updating console firmware on a 3000/400
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/29/1997 11:05:17
Ken Hornstein writes:
> CPU OK KN15-BA -V2.4-S462-I077-sV1.0-DECchip 21064 P3.0
^^^^^
The ...-sV1.0 means you have SROM version 1.0. You need the upgrade.
>
> Is it possible to download/buy an SROM upgrade, or is it soldered on the
> board? (If it's that EEPROM that I see on the board, then I could just
> burn a new one with our EEPROM burner).
You *should* be able to get DEC Service to give you one for free. It
may take some convincing, but I was able to get 2 new chips for a pair
of 3000/400's where I used to work.
Drew