Re: Alpha 1200 BIOS

number1_at_writeme.com
Date: 06/04/04

  • Next message: Richard Tomkins: "Re: Alpha 1200 BIOS" 
    Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 00:55:33 GMT

    The As1200 is a NT system and the AS4100 doesn't want to boot. Not
    even from CD. I can erase the RAID partitions on the AS1200 with
    ARCINST but don't see the 9G hard drives from the AS4100 when I plug
    them in (irregardless of which slot I use). I think the BIOS are too
    old to recognize those hard drives.

    When I run Upgrade AlphaBIOS from the BIOS setup it apparently is
    looking for the EISA Configuration Utility program to put it in SRM
    mode. Can't put my hands on the utility at the moment.

    I'll check out comp.os.vms.

    On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 11:17:35 +0100, Nic Clews
    <sendspamhere@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:

    >number1@writeme.com wrote:
    >>
    >> I have inherited a project of wiping out the drives on an AlphaServer
    >> 1200 and an AlphaServer 4100. I could wipe out the drives of both
    >> systems with ARCINST if I could upgrade the BIOS on the 1200. The only
    >> BIOS I find on HP are for x86 systems so I suspect they won’t work on
    >> the Alpha. In any case, the Alpha doesn’t see the .sys files when I
    >> try to upgrade the BIOS.
    >
    >If these are VMS systems, or with the VMS operating system installed,
    >you could boot the operating system CD to give you access to the
    >INIT/ERASE & etc. set of commands (please see discussion in comp.os.vms
    >for the relative security of this versus physical media destruction),
    >or, you could also boot the operating system, clear a disk under normal
    >operating system control, install a minimum operating system to that
    >disk (I always use @SYS$UPDATE:STABACKIT to do this 'cos I forget the
    >longhand command), then boot that to erase the remainder of the disks.
    >You could possibly/probably transplant the drives from one system to
    >another to complete the task.

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