From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 22 15: 2:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC3BD37B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 15:02:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10E9D43E4A for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 15:02:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA29824; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:02:24 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id gAMN1sN68351; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:01:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15838.46946.333532.796255@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:01:54 -0500 (EST) To: Kirk Strauser Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA on a Cabriolet? In-Reply-To: <87wun5yzzn.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net> References: <874ra934yu.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net> <20021122203006.B17435@freebie.xs4all.nl> <877kf51e8f.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net> <20021122224502.GH24783@cicely8.cicely.de> <87wun5yzzn.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kirk Strauser writes: > Since I still have a free slot (I have a Tekram SCSI card, 2 Intel EE/PRO > NICs, and an ISA video card), the IDE card may well be my cheapest option. > Oh, but to live in a city with a computer store... :-) Bear in mind that a PCI IDE board will not be usable as a boot device. Since you apparently do not live near a PC store and returns are not an option, Do some web/news searches for things that work and things that don't work at all on alpha. The SRM sometimes maps the memory or io space so high that poorly designed boards can't cope with it. FWIW, I have a Promise ATA/33 board that works just fine in a Miata. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message