DE500-BA and OpenVMS 6.2

[Volker Halle]

Wim,

do you really have a DE500-BA ?

What does SDA> CLUE CONFIG say ?

And SDA> SHOW LAN/DEV=EW
...
Device name: ?
...
Hardware Version: ?
...

According to the FAQ, Hardware Id should be: 02000030 = -BA, 02000020 and 20000022 = -AA

Volker.

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

HW-version is indeed 02000030.
Device name EW_TULIP.
Clue config HW-id 00191011 (as Vladi has).

Wim

[Volker Halle]

Wim,

thanks. This confirms, that a DE500-BA works on an AlphaServer 2100 V6.2-anything, if ALPCPU0907_062 is installed.

The open question is, why does it work with just ALPLAN04_062 installed (which added support for DE500-AA), when DE500-BA support is supposed to be added in ALPLAN05_062 (or higher) ?

What's the link date of your SYS$EWDRIVER_DE500BA.EXE ? Does SDA> SHOW DEV EW really show SYS$EWDRIVER_DE500BA as being used ?

Volker.

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Volker,

I just removed the cable of the other interface and did rlogins to it. So, it is used. I will check sda tomorrow morning.

Wim

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Volker,

Link date 4-mar-1998 17:03.
Show dev gives sys$ewdriver_de.
And it is used because the in/out counters are very high.

Wim

[Volker Halle]

Wim,

thanks for the information about the link date.

The requirement for needing to install the CPU patch kit was included in ALPLAN05_062 patch description, but dropped from ALPLAN06_062:

If the DE500-BA Fast Ethernet adapter and/or the RACORE Token Ring adapter is to be supported, then the appropriate ALPCPU* routines remedial kit must be installed.

Volker.

[Vladimir Fabecic]

Thanks everybody for helping me.
Looks like ALPCPU0907_062 is the missing piece.
AXPGUP01_06 is patch for motiff. It is not used, so I do not think it is needed (but it is not a problem to install it).
Patch will be installed on friday this week (it is a production server). Hope it would work. I will also install ALPBOOT13_062 if needed.
On monday next week I will assign points (with pleasure!).
In the meantime any suggustion and idea is wellcome.

[Vladimir Fabecic]

Thanks everybody!
I installed patch ALPCPU0907_062. Everything works fine!
That was the missing piece.
So DE500-BA works on OpenVMS 6.2 with ALPLAN05_062 and ALPCPU0907_062.

[Steve Reece_3]

Glad to hear your card's working now.

FWIW, I wouldn't recommend "upgrading" to 6.2-1H3 as it can turn into something of a blind alley where you can't upgrade without initializing the system disk!