On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 06:55:16PM -0500, Johan A. van Zanten wrote:
> 
> ---In message <20030415224136.GA57371@freebie.xs4all.nl>
> 
> >I think (am pretty sure in fact) that USB support is intentionally disabled
> >by the SRM on DS10.
> 
>  I believe it's disabled in later versions of the SRM, but in older
> versions of the SRM, it's still enabled and seems to cause problems.

Correct, the early revs had it enabled. 

>  This is the message i sent summarizing this after i resolved the problems
> i was having getting NetBSD 1.5.3 to boot on some DS10s about 8 months
> ago.:
> 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/2002/08/06/0000.html
> 
> Perhaps Bob has some DS10s with older SRM firmware and needs to update
> them to eliminate the USB problems.

My colleagues in Alpha repair engineering told me that the USB stuff had
caused problems to DEC development engineering and at some point a decision
was made to ditch (disable) it.

W/

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