Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 21:56:52 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> Cc: Mike Eldridge <diz@cafes.net>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Borg SRM? (was: Lynx test / 2nd attempt) Message-ID: <20001208215651.A12486@cicely5.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20001208195353.A7717@freebie.demon.nl>; from wkb@freebie.demon.nl on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 07:53:53PM %2B0100 References: <20001208175956.A6118@freebie.demon.nl> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012081122300.29249-100000@mail.cafes.net> <20001208195353.A7717@freebie.demon.nl>
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On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 07:53:53PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> Yep, that is what I would do. Or get an el-cheapo Symbios 810 PCIcard and
> a smallish SCSI disk to boot from. Data can then be put on an Adaptec (or
> whatever) driven SCSI card or on some Alphas on an IDE drive (even cheaper)
810 is not a good choice at least not on all alphas.
Todays 810 cards use the 53c810ae which doesn't work on my PC164 SRM.
SRM detects it as an 810 but doesn't probe devices.
I had the luck to get an 53c895 booting which was very surprising to me as
everybody says it won't.
Here is pciconf output:
sym0@pci0:5:0: class=0x010000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x000c1000 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
<LSI Logic>,<SYM53C895 Ultra-2 Wide SCSI>
sym1@pci0:6:0: class=0x010000 card=0x10001000 chip=0x00011000 rev=0x23 hdr=0x00
<LSI Logic>,<53C810 Fast/Narrow SCSI I/O Cntrlr>
sym2@pci0:7:0: class=0x010000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x00011000 rev=0x12 hdr=0x00
<LSI Logic>,<53C810 Fast/Narrow SCSI I/O Cntrlr>
sym0 (895) and sym2 (810a) works with SRM while sym1 (810ae) does not.
LSI changed the card number defaults for the ae.
That doesn't mean I want some hacks - it's just the risk with old hardware...
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