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author | wilko <wilko@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-11-09 22:34:02 +0000 |
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committer | wilko <wilko@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-11-09 22:34:02 +0000 |
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml index 463aa0a..298b91d 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml @@ -432,201 +432,6 @@ cpu EV4</programlisting> </sect3> <sect3> - <title>Universal Desktop Box (UDB or <quote>Multia</quote>)</title> - - <note><para>Multia can be either Intel or Alpha CPU based. We - assume Alpha based ones here for obvious reasons.</para></note> - - <para>Multia is a small desktop box intended as a sort of - personal workstation. They come in a considerable number of - variations, check closely what you get.</para> - - <para>Features:</para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>21066 Alpha CPU at 166 MHz or 21066A CPU at 233MHz</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>on-board Bcache / L2 cache: COAST-like 256 kByte - cache module; 233MHz models have 512kByte of cache; - 166MHz models have soldered-on 256kB caches</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>PS/2 mouse & keyboard port</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>memory:</para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>bus width: 64 bits</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>PS/2 style 72 pin 36 bit Fast Page Mode SIMMs</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>70ns or better</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>SIMMs are installed in pairs of 2</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>4 SIMM sockets</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>uses ECC</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>2 16550A serial ports</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>1 parallel port</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>floppy interface</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Intel 82378ZB PCI to ISA bridge</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>1 embedded 21040 based 10Mbit Ethernet, AUI and - 10base2 connector</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>expansion:</para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>1 32 bit PCI slot</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>2 PCMCIA slots</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>on-board Crystal CS4231 or AD1848 sound chip</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>embedded Fast SCSI, using a Symbios 53C810[A] chip on the - PCI riser card</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - - <para>Multia has enough Flash ROM to store both SRM and ARC code - at the same time and allow software selection of one of them.</para> - - <para>The embeded TGA video adapter is <emphasis>not</emphasis> currently - usable as a &os; console. You will need to use a serial console.</para> - - <para>Multia has only one 32 bit PCI slot for expansion, and it - is only suitable for a small form factor PCI card. By - sacrificing the PCI slot space you can mount a 3.5" hard disk - drive. Mounting stuff may have come with your Multia. Adding a - 3.5" disk is <emphasis>not</emphasis> a recommended upgrade - due to the limited power rating of the power supply - and the extremely marginal cooling of - the system box.</para> - - <para>Multia also has 2 PCMCIA expansion slots. These are - currently not supported by &os;.</para> - - <para>The CPU might or might not be socketed, check this before - considering CPU upgrade hacks. The low-end Multias have a - soldered-in CPU.</para> - - <para>Multia has 2 serial ports but routes both of them to the - outside world on a single 25 pin sub-D connector. The Multia FAQ - explains how to build your own Y-cable to allow both ports to be - used.</para> - - <para>Although the Multia SRM supports booting from floppy this - can be problematic. Typically the errors look like:</para> - - <screen>*** Soft Error - Error #10 - FDC: Data overrun or underrun</screen> - - <para>This is not a &os; problem, it is a SRM problem. The best available - workaround to install &os; is to boot from a SCSI CDROM.</para> - - <para>There have been reports that you sometimes need to press - <keycap>Control</keycap>-<keycap>Alt</keycap>-<keycap>Del</keycap> - to capture the SRM's attention. I have - never seen this myself, but it is worth trying when you are greeted - by a blank screen after powerup.</para> - - <para>Sound works fine using &man.pcm.4; driver and a line in the - kernel configuration file as follows for the Crystal CS4231 - chip:</para> - - <programlisting>device pcm</programlisting> - - <para>The sound device lives at port 0x530, and uses irq 9 along - with drq 3. You also need to specify flags 0x15 in the <filename>device.hints</filename> file.</para> - - <para>I have not yet been successful in getting my Multia with - the AD1848 to play any sound.</para> - - <para>While verifying playback I was reminded of the lack of CPU - power of the 166MHz CPU. MP3 only plays acceptable using 22kHz - down-sampling.</para> - - <para>Multias are somewhat notorious for dying of heat - strokes. The very compact box does not really allow access to cooling air. - Please use the Multia on its vertical stand, - don't put it horizontally (<quote>pizza style</quote>). Replacing the - fan with something which pushes around more air is really - recommended. You can also cut one of the wires to the fan speed - sensor. Once cut, the fan runs at a (loud) full speed. - Beware of PCI cards with high power consumption. - If your system has died you might want to check the - Multia-Heat-Death pages at the - <ulink url="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD Web site</ulink> - for help in reviving it.</para> - - <para>The Intel 82378ZB PCI to ISA bridge enables the use of an - IDE disk. This requires a line in the kernel configuration file - as follows:</para> - - <programlisting>device ata</programlisting> - - <para>The ATA interface uses IRQ 14.</para> - - <para>The IDE connector pin spacing is thought for 2.5" laptop - disks. A 3.5" IDE disk would not fit in the case anyway. At - least not without sacrificing your only PCI slot. The SRM - console unfortunately does not know how to boot from IDE - disks. You will need to use a SCSI disk as the boot disk.</para> - - <para>In case you want to change the internal hard drive: the - internal flat cable running from the PCI riser board to the - <emphasis>2.5"</emphasis> - hard drive has a finer pitch than the standard SCSI flat - cables. Otherwise it would not fit on the 2.5" drives. There are - also riser cards that have a standard-pitch SCSI cable attached - to it, which will fit an ordinary SCSI disk.</para> - - <para>Again, I recommend against trying to cram a replacement - hard disk inside. Use the external SCSI connector and put your - disk in an external enclosure. Multias run hot enough as-is. In - most cases you will have the external high density 50-pin SCSI - connector but some Multia models came without disk and may lack - the connector. Something to check before buying one.</para> - - <para>The kernel configuration file for a Multia kernel must - contain:</para> - - <programlisting>options DEC_AXPPCI_33 -cpu EV4</programlisting> - - <para>Recommended reading on Multia can be found at - <ulink url="http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/multiafaq.html"> - http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/multiafaq.html</ulink> - or <ulink url="http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/computers/udb.html"> - http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/computers/udb.html</ulink>.</para> - - </sect3> - - <sect3> <title>Personal Workstation (<quote>Miata</quote>)</title> <para>The Miata is a small tower machine intended to be put @@ -2374,112 +2179,6 @@ cpu EV5</programlisting> </sect3> <sect3> - <title>AlphaServer 8200 and 8400 (<quote>TurboLaser</quote>)</title> - - <para>The AlphaServer 8200 and 8400 machines are enterprise servers. - Expect a tall 19" cabinet (8200) or fat (8400) 19" rack. - This is big iron, not a hobbyist system. TurboLasers are multi-CPU - machines, up to 12 CPUs can be in a single machine. The TurboLaser - System Bus (TLSB) allows 9 nodes on the AS8400 and 5 nodes on - the AS8200. TLSB is 256 bit data, 40 bit address allowing 2.1 - GBytes/sec. Nodes on the TLSB can be CPUs, memory or I/O. A - maximum of 3 I/O ports are supported on a TLSB.</para> - - <para>Basic disk storage is housed in a StorageWorks shelf. - AS8400 uses 3 phase power, AS8200 uses single phase power.</para> - - <para>Features:</para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para>21164 EV5/EV56 CPUs at up to 467 MHz or 21264 EV67 CPUs at - up to 625 MHz</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>one or two CPUs per CPU module</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>cache: 4Mbytes B-cache per CPU</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>memory bus: 256 bit with ECC</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>memory: big memory modules that plug into the TLSB, - which in turn hold special SIMM modules. Memory modules come - in varying sizes, up to 4 GBytes a piece. Uses ECC (8 bits - per 64 bits of data) 7 memory modules max for AS8400, - 3 modules max for AS8200. Maximum memory is 28 GBytes.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>expansion: 3 system <quote>I/O ports</quote> that allow up to - 12 I/O channels each I/O channel can connect to - XMI, Futurebus+ or PCI boxes</para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - - <para>&os; supports (and has been tested with) up to 2 GBytes - of memory on TurboLaser. There is a trade-off to be made between - TLSB slots occupied by memory modules and TLSB slots occupied by - CPU modules. For example you can have 28GBytes of memory but only - 2 CPUs (1 module) at the same time.</para> - - <para>Only PCI expansion is supported on &os;. XMI or - Futurebus+ (which are AS8400 only) are both unsupported.</para> - - <para>The I/O port modules are designated KFTIA or KFTHA. The - I/O port modules supply so called <quote>hoses</quote> that connect to - up to 4 (KFTHA) PCI buses or 1 PCI bus (KFTIA). KFTIA has - embedded dual 10baseT Ethernet, single FDDI, 3 SCSI Fast - Wide Differential SCSI buses and a single Fast Wide Single Ended - SCSI bus. The FWSE SCSI is intended for the CDROM.</para> - - <para>KFTHA can drive via each of its 4 hoses a DWLPA or DWLPB - box. The DWLPx house a 12 slots 32 bit PCI backplane. Physically - the 12 slots are 3 4-slot buses but to the software it appears - as a single 12 slots PCI bus. A fully expanded AS8x00 can have - 3 (I/O ports) times 4 (hoses) times 12 (PCI slots/DWLPx) = - 144 PCI slots. The maximum bandwidth per KFTHA is 500 - Mbytes/second. DWLPA can also house 8 EISA cards, 2 slots - are PCI-only, 2 slots are EISA only. Of the 12 slots 2 - are always occupied by an I/O and connector module. DWLPB are the - prefered I/O boxes.</para> - - <para>For best performance distribute high bandwidth - (FibreChannel, Gigabit Ethernet) over multiple hoses and/or - multiple KFTHA/KFTIA.</para> - - <para>Currently PCI expansion cards containing PCI bridges are - not usable with &os;. Don't use them at this time.</para> - - <para>The single ended narrow SCSI bus on the KFTIA will turn up as - the <emphasis>fourth</emphasis> SCSI bus. The 3 fast-wide - differential SCSI buses of the KFTIA precede it. </para> - - <para>AS8x00 are generally run with serial consoles. Some - newer machines might have a graphical console of some sorts - but &os; has only been tested on a serial console.</para> - - <para>For serial console usage either change - <filename>/etc/ttys</filename> to have:</para> - - <programlisting>console "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown on secure</programlisting> - - <para>as the console entry, or add</para> - - <programlisting>zs0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown on secure</programlisting> - - <para>For the AlphaServer 8x00 machines the kernel config file - must contain:</para> - <programlisting>options DEC_KN8AE # Alpha 8200/8400 (Turbolaser) -cpu EV5</programlisting> - - <para>Contrary to expectation there is no <literal>cpu - EV6</literal> defined for inclusion in the kernel config - file. The <literal>cpu EV5</literal> is mandatory to keep - &man.config.8; happy.</para> - </sect3> - - <sect3> <title>Alpha Processor Inc. UP1000</title> <para>The UP1000 is an ATX mainboard based on the 21264a |