Subject: Re: AlphaPC164/LX SRM updates
To: Paul H. Anderson <pha@pdq.com>
From: Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@ping.net.au>
List: port-alpha
Date: 09/02/1998 23:09:50
Hmmm, don't remember the first email but I can't confirm this:
ftp> pwd
257 "/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/v5.2/alphapc164lx" is current directory.
ftp> dir alphapc164lx
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 2884
-r--r--r-- 1 0 0 3084 May 28 11:16 fwreadme.txt
-r--r--r-- 1 0 0 978432 May 28 11:16 fwupdate.exe
-r--r--r-- 1 0 0 978432 May 28 11:16 lx164_v5_1.exe
-r--r--r-- 1 0 0 978944 May 28 11:16 lx164_v5_1.sys
If this is what you're looking for than it's still on the server....
cheerio Berndt
Paul H. Anderson wrote
>
>
> My message a few days ago regarding where to find the update to the SRM
> for the AlphaPC164/LX motherboard is obsolete - the directory has been
> removed from the ftp server at digital.
>
> Which leads to the question:
>
> Has anyone gotten the firmware in
> ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/v5.2/alphapc164lx
>
> to correctly install on that motherboard? Although there is no
> lx164srm.rom file (as the v5.0 directory used to have), the .exe file in
> v5.2 is big enough that I think it holds the SRM image in it.
>
> Any clues would be appreciated. I'm not sure what changes v5.2 has over
> 5.0 (which, for alphapc164lx only, is actually a copy of 4.9, I think).
>
> Paul
>
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