DEC firmware

Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw at lug-owl.de
Tue Dec 6 13:21:31 CST 2005


On Mon, 2005-12-05 19:53:54 -0600, compoobah at valleyimplants.com <compoobah at valleyimplants.com> wrote:
> At least some of the Alphas have a failsafe jumper & disk, too, that
> allows you to recover from failed flashes. Set the jumper, put the
> disk in, and you can try again.

These are only avaliable on machines with larger FLASH memories
capable of basically holding a second firmware image. Though, the
older machines (esp. the 3000 models) won't support that.

MfG, JBG

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