From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Aug 15 19:21:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079DF14BE1 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 19:21:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA61565 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 22:19:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 22:19:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: FreeBSD-Alpha Subject: FAQ and power for PC164SX Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anyone know the location of any kind of readme, even if it's got loads of spelling errors and bad BO, regarding Alpha installations? Anyhow, I have a PC164SX board. I'd heard that the PC164* boards needed to have a kludged ATX power supply, because the interface offered from the board to the power supply had no ability to turn the power supply on and off. Well, now that I have one, and I've read the PC164SX trm, it says on page 2-13 that connector J1 is for Soft Power, and pin 1, INPUT, is identified by the string "System Power On/Off". That seems suspiciously like just that I was told was missing from the power supply. Could someone please explain about the power situation? I have a 300 watt standard ATX PS, and I'm loathe to spend extra on a specially kludged PS unless there's good reason. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic and jaunt, both FreeBSD-current. (301) 220-2114 | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message