[rescue] Alpha 2100 ECU diskettes

[Dave McGuire]

On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 05:34 PM, Eric Dittman wrote:
>>> I apparently need to re-run the Eisa Config Utilities on one of my 
>>> two new
>>> Alphas. However, these are not available from Compaq (the bastards). 
>>> I
>>> need the ECU for *nix, _not_ NT.
>>
>> You mean there's a difference? The ECU I use is probably what you're 
>> caling
>> the NT ECU, and it works fine. I just fire up the Alpha, switch to 
>> ARC, run
>> the ECU from there, then switch back to the SRM.
>
> Yes, there are two versions, and they are different.  There's
> a version for NT, and a version for OpenVMS/Unix.  I do know
> that if you use the NT ECU to configure an Alphaserver 1000A
> SRM may complain.

   Interesting, I wasn't aware of that.

   In any case, I have an ECU disk here that I just used to reconfigure 
an AS2100 which I then installed VMS on.  If it would be helpful I'd be 
happy to make an image of it and send it to you.

         -Dave

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