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IRIX 4.0.5F/RE/FDDI on a 340

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From: Andrew Cassin
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 08:20
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Hi,
	Today we had a RE (1 pipeline) installed on a 340. After upgrading
	to 4.0.5F, we (meaning the SGI SE and myself) suddenly found
	that the kernel would not link as a symbol "ipg_type" was not
	defined in any of the files in /usr/sysgen/boot. We were running
	4.0.5A before the RE upgrade.
	
	Moving the driver /usr/sysgen/boot/if_ipg.o to /usr/sysgen 
	caused the kernel to link and run successfully but we have 
	no FDDI connectivity as this driver  is no longer part of the 
	running kernel.

	Disk space was not a problem, the installs went fairly smoothly
	(once we sorted out the tftp perms :), and the RE is successfully
	running, at the expense of FDDI. The Service Engineer suspected
	that the maintenance images were not quite right for our system, 
	but that is a preliminary observation.

	Any ideas dave/SGI? I would be happy to send
	more detailed information (CD part #'s etc...) if required.

Andrew Cassin
RMIT Advanced Computer Graphics Centre
email address: acas@godzilla.cgl.citri.edu.au

PS. Some information after the 4.0.5F software install was complete:

godzilla 56% df
Filesystem                 Type  blocks     use   avail %use  Mounted on
/dev/root                   efs   31482   22608    8874  72%  /
/dev/dsk/lv1                efs 5742126 5201449  540677  91%  /usr2
/dev/usr                    efs  573672  488313   85359  85%  /usr
/dev/dsk/dks0d4s7           efs 1975100 1004978  970122  51%  /usr/scratch
manda:/usr/appl             nfs 1834496 1581568  252928  86%  /usr/appl

godzilla 57% hinv -v
4 33 MHZ IP7 Processors
FPU: MIPS R2010A/R3010 VLSI Floating Point Chip Revision: 3.0
CPU: MIPS R2000A/R3000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.0
On-board serial ports: 2 per CPU board
Data cache size: 64 Kbytes
Instruction cache size: 64 Kbytes
Secondary data cache size: 256 Kbytes
Main memory size: 64 Mbytes
I/O board, slot F: IO3
IEEE-488 bus controller 0
RealityEngine Graphics option installed
Tape drive: unit 6 on SCSI controller 1: 8mm cartridge
Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 1
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 1
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version WD33C93A
Tape drive: unit 7 on SCSI controller 0: QIC 150
Disk drive: unit 4 on SCSI controller 0
Disk drive: unit 3 on SCSI controller 0
Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93A

godzilla 59% uname -a
IRIX godzilla 4.0.5F 08280217 IP7
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From: acas@cgl.citri.edu.au (Andrew Cassin)
Subject: IRIX 4.0.5F/RE/FDDI on a 340
Message-ID: <acas.726481209@godzilla.cgl.citri.edu.au>
Summary: A possible inst or inst image bug?
Keywords: see subject
Sender: news@etrog.se.citri.edu.au
Organization: Collaborative Information Technology Research Institute
Date:  8 Jan 93 08:20:09 GMT
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