Re: boot problems on alpha

[George France <france@handhelds.org>]

On Wednesday 11 June 2003 05:06 pm, Joerg Hoh wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 02:13:22PM -0400, Jay Estabrook wrote:
> > Do:
> > >>> sho dev
> >
> > to see where the CD ROM device actually is; dka0 is probably a hard
> > disk, as usually, the CD ROM is dka400 or dka500 or some such...
>
> Hmpf, you're right, it is dka400; but how can I read from this
>
> dka0.0.0.2000.0            DKA0                          RZ28M  1004
> dka100.1.0.2000.0          DKA100                     RZ1CB-CS  0656
> dka200.2.0.2000.0          DKA200                     RZ1CB-CS  0844
> dka300.3.0.2000.0          DKA300            COMPAQ BB00913466  3B07
> dka400.4.0.2000.0          DKA400                        RRD46  0557
> dva0.0.0.1000.0            DVA0
> mka500.5.0.2000.0          MKA500              COMPAQ SDT-9000  4.05
> ewa0.0.0.12.0              EWA0              00-00-F8-05-8B-7E
> pka0.7.0.2000.0            PKA0                  SCSI Bus ID 7  5.27
> pkb0.7.0.13.0              PKB0                  SCSI Bus ID 7
>
> that RRD46 means that this is a CD-ROM drive? Is there a list available on
> the net which explains this? I never found any.

http://www.alphalinux.org/faq/x99.html

You can also find a link to the SRM manual on the above site. :-)

--George