What SRM version does it display? Might need to update...
BTW, I'm putting the finishing touches on a boot floppy for Multias, so you
can use an IDE drive, and not an external SCSI drive...

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-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Charles Fultz [mailto:fultz@cs.purdue.edu]
-> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 3:34 PM
-> To: port-alpha@netbsd.org
-> Subject: Multia won't boot with IDE drive plugged in
-> 
-> 
-> This may be a bit off-topic, but it is Alpha-related.
-> 
-> I have a DEC Multia that won't boot if an IDE hard drive is 
-> plugged in
-> to the 44pin IDE connector.  If I start the machine up 
-> without the IDE
-> hard drive plugged in, it'll boot fine from the floppy or 
-> any SCSI device.
-> The SRM console displays only two lines, one with the SRM console
-> version and a second line saying that it is "Testing memory" 
->  with two
-> memory ranges and then it just sits there and does nothing else.
-> 
-> Any ideas as to why it won't boot with the IDE drive plugged in?
-> I haven't tried doing the same with ARC.
-> 
-> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-> 
-> Thanks,
-> Charles Fultz
-> fultz
->