Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 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/
> 
Thanks Guys, I have rev 5.6-3 I think it si, I will check for aew one now,
and then try again. OVer night the Freebsd did run just fine, so I am
convinced the HW is good, includign the disk and PS.

Thanks all!!
bob