Subject: RE: Multia won't boot
To: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
From: John Hayward <John.C.Hayward@wheaton.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/27/2001 22:32:04
The E215 chip looks fine. I'll clip the yellow wires and try replacing
the battery.
johnh...
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, David Woyciesjes wrote:
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:13:26 -0400
> From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
> To: 'John Hayward' <John.C.Hayward@wheaton.edu>, port-alpha@netbsd.org
> Subject: RE: Multia won't boot
>
> How was the airflow and cooling on your Multia? If you look at the
> bottom of the board, how does the E215 chip look? Hopefully it's not burnt
> (Heat Death...)
>
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>
> ! -----Original Message-----
> ! From: John Hayward [mailto:John.C.Hayward@wheaton.edu]
> ! Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:02 PM
> ! To: port-alpha@netbsd.org
> ! Subject: Multia won't boot
> !
> !
> ! Dear NetBSDers,
> ! I had an Multia running for some time. I've had
> ! NetBSD-1.5 running on
> ! it. It had been serving as a NAT machine, web server, imap
> ! server etc on
> ! my DSL line. About 6 weeks ago i noticed some halts while
> ! running.
> ! Sometimes when I attempted to reboot it seemed to stop
> ! before it got to
> ! the SRM console information - the monitor would indicate it
> ! was recieving
> ! no signal before anything was displayed. Sometimes it would boot but
> ! hang part way thru the messages. Other times it would boot and
> ! seem to run for several days.
> ! About 5 weeks ago TELOCITY DSL went out and was out for 4
> ! weeks. I was
> ! gone on vacation duing the last part of this time and when I came back
> ! last night I could not get the Multia to ever get to the point I could
> ! see anything on the monitor. I removed the NCR SCSI controler, PCI
> ! eithernet card, reseated memory, tried some other memory all
> ! to no avail.
> ! Previously I had trouble (of a different sort) and several people
> ! suggested getting a new clock battery. I think that was
> ! about a 15 months
> ! ago.
> ! Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> ! I also would be interested in getting the info off the SCSI
> ! disk. Should I be able to access this from a VAX or MIPS
> ! machine or is
> ! the 64 bit integers/indianess going to be an issue?
> !
> ! TIA
> ! johnh...
> !
>