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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

8835.0. "question about Token Ring" by EVTAI1::BOIZIAU () Fri Feb 14 1997 08:25

    Alpha 1000A/5/333 PAL code V1.21. Firmware Revision 4.7

    Conrad Thomas PB-XNP-AA Token Ring board :


    tra0: TMS380 PCI Token Ring interface
    tra0: TMS380 Microcode type CAF, _Silicon Revision 4.2,
          Microcode level 2.28


    Customer says that the machine is very very slow and long to boot if
    the board is connected to a 4Mbps Ring.

    In this case messages such as : Waiting for DW to start
                              and : Open adapter failed
   are seen.


    If the ring is 16Mbps, there is no problem at all.

    Is it possible to set the board at 4Mbps at the console prompt ?


PdO

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
8835.1		SMURF::GILLUM	Kirt Gillum	`Fri Feb 14 1997 11:23`	11
	A couple of things could be going wrong here, but essentially some protocol is starting the interface at the wrong speed. And yes, this will not only slow things down on your host machine, but it will totally trash the ring. LAT typically wants to start on all devices. If you don't need LAT, get rid of it. There are other protocols too, but you're going to have to track down what party is responsible for starting the interface at the wrong speed.
8835.2	speed 4/speed 16	NETRIX::"[email protected]"	Brian Haley	`Fri Feb 14 1997 11:48`	14
	Hi, Are you setting the correct speed in /etc/rc.config when you change ring speed? There is a speed argument on the IFCONFIG_X line for Token Ring: NETDEV_2="tra0" IFCONFIG_2="16.141.144.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 speed 16" ... and you must set any bridges accordingly ... and you must set any other nodes too ... -Brian [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
8835.3		AUBER::DORNANO		`Tue Feb 25 1997 05:03`	11
	Well, thank you for your input, although I missed to tell that the "hang" of the boot happens at the very beginning (long before LAT or anything else start). It hangs even before the loading of vmunix.. Could it be a problem with the board or with the firmware revs in this case ? Pascal
8835.4		SMURF::GILLUM	Kirt Gillum	`Wed Feb 26 1997 11:45`	12
	Check with the platform notesconferences to see if anyone knows how to keep the console from using the Token Ring device as a possible boot device. There has to be some sort of environment variable to set this... Perhaps look at the environment variables in the console, and see if anything jumps out at you... >>> show dwa*
8835.5	answer from MIKASA	AUBER::DORNANO		`Mon Mar 03 1997 05:51`	22
	I post here the answer I got from the MISAKA (Alpha 1000) conference, just to let you know, and in case it could help someone else.. Pascal <<< WRKSYS::SYS_TOOLS:[NOTES$LIBRARY]MIKASA.NOTE;2 >>> -< AlphaServer 1000 (aka Mikasa) >- ================================================================================ Note 852.1 slow boot with DW300 1 of 1 AFW1::RENDA "Mike Renda dtn: 223-4663" 10 lines 28-FEB-1997 10:27 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unfortunately there is no console environment variable at this time to set/ change the setting from 16Mbps to 4Mbps. On this platform, the console start/restarts drivers on a powerup/reboot. For this device the console setting is fixed 16Mbps. There is the possibility of adding a console environment variable to change settings in a future release of the console. Is it possible to create a shell script to have the Digital Unix device driver set the device to 4Mbps when Digital Unix is started/restarted?