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Alpha SRM Console Firmware

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A console terminal with ASCII capability or a supported graphics display con-
sole

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DIGITAL UNIX Version 4.0 Operating System Volume 1 compact disc

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Alpha SRM Console Version 4.5 or higher

7.5.2 Special Instructions

When booting DIGITAL UNIX Version 4.0 on an Alpha PC 164 motherboard sys-
tem, the following message is displayed:

Module 1095:646 not in pci option table, can’t 
configure it.

This message is caused by the on-board IDE controller not being recognized and 
supported by DIGITAL UNIX Version 4.0. This message is normal and can be 
ignored.

Summary of Contents for AlphaPC 164

Page 1: ...AlphaPC 164 Motherboard DIGITAL UNIX User s Manual Revision Update Information This manual supersedes the AlphaPC 164 Motherboard DIGITAL UNIX User s Manual Revision A...

Page 2: ...ms Corporation Standard Microsystems is a registered trademark of Standard Microsystems Corporation TriQuint is a registered trademark of TriQuint Semiconductor Inc UNIX is a registered trademark in t...

Page 3: ...Option Jumper CF7 10 3 7 Flash ROM Update Jumper J31 10 4 AlphaPC 164 Connector Pinouts 11 5 Configuring and Upgrading DRAM Memory 19 5 1 Configuring DRAM Memory 19 5 2 Upgrading DRAM Memory 20 6 Inte...

Page 4: ...iv 9 Ordering Associated Documentation 45...

Page 5: ...v Figures 1 AlphaPC 164 Jumper Connector Component Location 4 2 AlphaPC 164 Configuration Jumpers 9...

Page 6: ...Bus Connector Pinouts J16 15 11 COM1 COM2 Serial Line Connector Pinouts J4 16 12 Keyboard Mouse Connector Pinouts J15 16 13 SROM Test Data Input Connector Pinouts J32 16 14 Input Power Connector Pino...

Page 7: ...herwise indicated In case of ambiguity a subscript indicates the radix of nondecimal numbers For exam ple 19 is a decimal number but 1916 and 19A are hexadecimal numbers Extents Extents are specified...

Page 8: ...e following terms are used in this document This term Refers to Alpha SRM Console The Alpha SRM Console firmware DIGITAL UNIX installation guide The DIGITAL UNIX Installation Guide DIGITAL UNIX The DI...

Page 9: ...pset Digital Semiconductor 21172 core logic chipset consisting of one control chip and four data chips that provides an interface to system memory and the PCI bus DRAM memory 16MB to 512MB memory arra...

Page 10: ...2 U48 U29 U21 U49 U50 U40 U51 U52 U39 U36 J30 J31 J35 J33 J28 B1 J3 1 2 1 3 3 1 1 3 1 4 1 5 1 2 25 26 20 11 10 1 View from edge U2 U18 U14 U10 U5 U16 U17 U11 U12 U6 U7 J25 J27 J21 J22 J23 J24 J4 J32 J...

Page 11: ...V power connector J23 Speaker connector J24 Reset button connector J25 Halt button connector J26 PCI slot 1 64 bit J27 Power LED connector J28 Hard drive LED connector J29 PCI slot 0 64 bit J30 Config...

Page 12: ...When the signal is generated it resets the system 2 2 Environmental Requirements The 21164 microprocessor is cooled by a small fan blowing directly into the chip s heat sink The AlphaPC 164 motherboar...

Page 13: ...that have ade quate clearance for the 21164 microprocessor heat sink and fan All ISA and PCI expansion slots are usable in standard desktop or deskside enclosures Table 4 AlphaPC 164 Motherboard Envir...

Page 14: ...clock divisor jumpers are located at J30 1 2 IRQ3 J30 3 4 IRQ2 J30 5 6 IRQ1 and J30 7 8 IRQ0 The jumper configuration set in IRQ3 through IRQ0 determines the frequency of the microprocessor s system c...

Page 15: ...r combinations In Out Out Out In In Out In Out 366 MHz 400 MHz 433 MHz 11 12 13 Out Out Out Reserved Bcache Size Out Out All other combinations CF1 CF2 Comments 1MB Out In 2MB Reserved Default Bcache...

Page 16: ...xecution of the system flash ROM code 3 6 Boot Option Jumper CF7 The boot option jumper is located at J30 23 24 CF7 The default position for this jumper is out Figure 2 This jumper selects the image t...

Page 17: ...AME A35 Gnd A36 TRDY A37 STOP A38 STOP A39 3V A40 SDONE A41 SBO A42 Gnd A43 PAR A44 AD 15 A45 3V A46 AD 13 A47 AD 11 A48 Gnd A49 AD 09 A50 Not used A51 Not used A52 C BE 0 A53 3V A54 AD 06 A55 AD 04 A...

Page 18: ...A85 D 40 A86 D 38 A87 Gnd A88 D 36 A89 D 34 A90 Gnd A91 D 32 A92 A93 Gnd A94 B63 B64 Gnd B65 C BE 6 B66 C BE 4 B67 Gnd B68 D 63 B69 D 61 B70 Vdd B71 D 59 B72 D 57 B73 Gnd B74 D 55 B75 D 53 B76 Gnd B7...

Page 19: ...16 31 DRQ3 32 SA15 33 DACK1 34 SA14 35 DRQ1 36 SA13 37 REFRESH 38 SA12 39 SYSCLK 40 SA11 41 IRQ7 42 SA10 43 IRQ6 44 SA9 45 IRQ5 46 SA8 47 IRQ4 48 SA7 49 IRQ3 50 SA6 51 DACK2 52 SA5 53 TC 54 SA4 55 BAL...

Page 20: ...S1 46 Vdd 47 WE 48 NC 49 DQ21 50 DQ22 51 DQ23 52 DQ24 53 DQ25 54 DQ26 55 DQ27 56 DQ28 57 DQ29 58 DQ30 59 Vdd 60 DQ31 61 DQ32 62 DQ33 63 DQ34 64 DQ35 65 DQ36 66 Vdd 67 NC 68 NC 69 NC 70 NC 71 Gnd 72 Gn...

Page 21: ...R0 15 Gnd 16 MTR1 17 Gnd 18 DIR 19 Gnd 20 STEP 21 Gnd 22 WDATA 23 Gnd 24 WGATE 25 Gnd 26 TRK0 27 Gnd 28 WRTPRT 29 ID0 30 RDATA 31 Gnd 32 HDSEL 33 ID1 34 DSKCHG Table 10 Parallel Bus Connector Pinouts...

Page 22: ...G1 5 SG2 6 DSR1 6 DSR2 7 RTS1 7 RTS2 8 CTS1 8 CTS2 9 RI1 9 RI2 Table 12 Keyboard Mouse Connector Pinouts J15 Keyboard Pin Top Keyboard Signal Mouse Pin Bottom Mouse Signal 1 KBDATA 1 MSDATA 2 NC 2 NC...

Page 23: ...dc 11 3 3 V dc 12 12 V dc 13 Ground 14 NC 15 Ground 16 Ground 17 Ground 18 5 V dc 19 5 V dc 20 5 V dc Table 15 Enclosure Fan 12 V dc Power Connector Pinouts J2 J22 Pin Voltage 1 Ground 2 12 V dc 3 Gr...

Page 24: ...Gnd 3 NC 4 NC 5 NC Table 19 IDE Drive LED Connector Pinouts J28 Pin Signal Name 1 HD_ACT_L Hard drive active 2 HD_LED_L Pull up to Vdd Table 20 Reset Button Connector Pinouts J24 Pin Signal Name 1 RE...

Page 25: ...must be 36 bit and have a 70 ns or faster access time All SIMMs must be of equal size 5 1 Configuring DRAM Memory Table 22 lists the DRAM memory configurations available Refer to Figure 1 for SIMM co...

Page 26: ...ch facing the key in the socket 4 Firmly push the module into the connector and stand the module upright Ensure that the SIMM snaps into the metal locking clips on both ends 5 For 128 bit memory bus w...

Page 27: ...ble 24 lists each AlphaPC 164 ISA interrupt and its source 1 The symbol indicates an active low signal Table 24 ISA Interrupts Interrupt Number Interrupt Source IRQ0 Internal timer 1 IRQ1 Keyboard IRQ...

Page 28: ...enables the lower 512KB of flash Writing a 1 to this location enables the upper 512KB of flash Table 25 ISA I O Address Map Range hex Usage 000 00F 8237 DMA 1 020 021 8259 PIC 1 040 043 8253 timer 06...

Page 29: ...ventions are used in this section Convention Description Alpha SRM Console prompt Backslash at the end of a line Continuation symbol to continue long commands on the next line _ Continuation line prom...

Page 30: ...e mode Overstrike is the default Ctrl B Up arrow Down arrow Recall previous commands The last 16 commands are stored Ctrl C Terminate the foreground process Ctrl D Left arrow Move the cursor one posit...

Page 31: ...ibes the following basic Alpha SRM Console commands that are necessary to boot the DIGITAL UNIX operating system arc boot deposit examine fwupdate set show The Alpha SRM Console offers additional comm...

Page 32: ...irmware arc Loads and runs the Windows NT ARC firmware from a diskette Syntax arc nt Arguments None Options None Examples Either of the following commands load and run the Windows NT ARC firmware from...

Page 33: ...f a file to load into the system Use the set boot_file command to set the environ ment variable that specifies a default boot file flags longword longword Specifies additional information for the oper...

Page 34: ...ed dec2 sys from Ethernet port ewa0 boot protocol bootp ewa0 Boots the system using the TCP IP BOOTP protocol from Ethernet port ewa0 boot flags 0 1 Boots the system from the default boot device using...

Page 35: ...urrent processor status PS the console issues an error message If memory mapping is not enabled virtual addresses are equal to physical addresses address An address that specifies the offset within a...

Page 36: ...pecifies data type is octaword h Specifies data type is hexword physical References physical address space virtual References virtual address space gpr References general purpose register address spac...

Page 37: ...s the first 512 bytes of physical mem ory d l n 3 pmem 1234 5 Writes the value 5 into four longwords starting at physical memory address 1234 d n 8 r0 ffffffff Loads GPRs R0 through R8 with 1 d l n 10...

Page 38: ...cified Options examine Command Option Description b Specifies data type is byte w Specifies data type is word l Specifies data type is longword q Specifies data type is quadword o Specifies data type...

Page 39: ...02 Examines the contents of R0 using a symbolic address e g 0 gpr 0 R0 0000000000000002 Examines the contents of R0 using address space e grp 0 gpr 0 R0 0000000000000002 Examines the contents of R0 us...

Page 40: ...e fwupdate Loads and runs the firmware update utility from a diskette Syntax fwupdate Arguments None Options None Examples The following fwupdate script command loads and runs the firmware update util...

Page 41: ...set Command Option Description default Restores an environment variable to its default value integer Creates an environment variable as an integer string Creates an environment variable as a string se...

Page 42: ...ormation on that device only iobq Displays the input output counter blocks hwrpb Displays the hardware restart parameter block map Displays the system virtual memory map memory Displays the memory mod...

Page 43: ...tions For a complete list enter show at the Alpha SRM Console prompt show memory 48 Meg of System Memory Lists system random access mem ory RAM size show refer to Section 7 3 Lists all environment var...

Page 44: ...on console When used with the set command this variable modifies the console output to either the serial port or the graphics con troller ewa0_mode This variable determines if the AUI ThinWire or the...

Page 45: ...anguage n Language 0 none display menu 40 Francais Suisse Romande 30 Dansk 42 Italiano 32 Deutsch 44 Nederlands 34 Deutsch Schweiz 46 Norsk 36 English American 48 Portugues 38 English British Irish 4A...

Page 46: ...ion 7 4 2 7 4 2 Running the Firmware Update Utility To run the firmware update utility follow this procedure 1 From the Firmware Update menu choose whichever selection appears Update SRM Console Firmw...

Page 47: ...ilitate booting another image from a diskette that is capable of reprogramming the flash 7 4 3 1 Running the Fail Safe Booter The fail safe booter can be started in one of two ways If the primary firm...

Page 48: ...upgrade to a new version of the operating system Be sure to review the preinstallation tasks which are covered in the DIGITAL UNIX Installation Guide 7 5 1 Requirements You need the following hardware...

Page 49: ...Console Version 4 5 or higher 7 5 2 Special Instructions When booting DIGITAL UNIX Version 4 0 on an Alpha PC 164 motherboard sys tem the following message is displayed Module 1095 646 not in pci opti...

Page 50: ...this is a LITHIUM battery the following additional precautions may apply Replace batteries correctly to prevent possible explosion Replace batteries with the same or equivalent type Prior to disposal...

Page 51: ...n MA 01749 USA Call the Digital Semiconductor Information Line United States and Canada 1 800 332 2717 Outside North America 1 510 490 4753 Visit the Digital Semiconductor World Wide Web Internet site...

Page 52: ...al 1 503 234 6762 FAX PCI Local Bus Specification Rev 2 1 PCI Special Interest Group See previous entry 82420 82430 PCIset ISA and EISA Bridges includes 82378IB ZB SIO PN 290483 Intel Corporation Lite...

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