| Title: | Alpha Workstation Conference |
| Notice: | See note 1.* for conference notices |
| Moderator: | WRKSYS::HOUSE |
| Created: | Wed Sep 07 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1996 |
| Total number of notes: | 9122 |
I have had 2 alpha255's now with the same problem .If the second disk
in the system has been partitioned useing NT4.0 and is over 1gb in size
Nt4.0 disk administrator automatically selects a block size of 2048
when the partition is formatted.
If the system is shutdown and the alphabios options
DISPLAY SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
HARD DISK SETUP
INSTALL WINDOWS NT
are selected
The console then hangs
The only way around this problem is to change the partition block size
to 1024 using format under disk administrator,not to useful if you have
data on this partition.
We have tried this scenario on an ALPHA4100 without any problem
Both alpha 255's are at alphabios 5.12 from firmware cd3.8
Is this a bug in the alpha bios.
Regards Geoff Nelson
UK Customer Support Centre
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| 1846.1 | DECWET::LEESC | Fri Feb 07 1997 11:51 | 6 | ||
Probably. Try AlphaBIOS V5.21 which will be on the upcoming firmware CD. If you can wait for a couple of weeks, the firmware will be posted on the web. If you need it immediately, contact me offline. Scott | |||||
| 1846.2 | 255 alphabios hang | CHEFS::NELSONG | Mon Feb 10 1997 08:36 | 6 | |
Thanks Scott
As we can get around the problem I will wait for next release of
firmware.
Regards Geoff Nelson
Uk Customer Support Centre
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