Subject: Re: NCR on Multia
To: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 10/03/2000 23:01:24
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:27:29PM -0400, Andrew Gillham wrote:
> Bjorn-Ove Heimsund writes:
> > 
> > I tried 1.5_ALPHA2, but upon bootup, I get the following messages:
> > 
> >  [...]
> >  siop0: target 0 now synchronous at 10.0Mhz, offset 8
> >  [...]
> >  WARNING: can't figure what device matches "DVA 1 0 0 0 0 0 0"
> >  root on md0a dumps on md0b
> >  WARNING: preposterous clock chip time
> >   -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
> >  root file system type: ffs
> >  Terminal type? [vt100]
> 
> Questions:
> 
> 1. Is your battery ok?
> 2. What version of SRM console?
> 3. Is console set to graphics in srm?
> 
> I have seen something vaguely similar when my battery was dead/low.
> The multia will do odd things in this case.  I have had mine come up
> and say it is a 500Mhz cpu, etc.

FWIW: mine reported both 125 Mhz and 500 Mhz today. It lacks the battery
altogether (need to shop for one over the weekend). 

I also saw that it reported the lack of timer interrupts.

-- 
Wilko Bulte  	 
wilko@freebsd.org 			Arnhem, the Netherlands