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Date:      Wed, 8 May 2002 13:02:58 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Jarkko Santala <jake@iki.fi>
To:        Daniel Jung <daniel@mimiland.org>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: promise ultra100TX2
Message-ID:  <20020508125923.Q258-100000@trillian.santala.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96LJ1.1b7.1020508183339.4759A-100000@blade.cybersurfer.net>

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On Wed, 8 May 2002, Daniel Jung wrote:

> Is it possible to boot from a disk that is connected to this controller?
> show dev from SRM doesn't seem to detect the disk that is
> connected to this controller.

The rule of thumb is that if 'show dev'=A0doesn't see it, you can't boot
from it. Of course, you could probably use something else to get things
going and have the actual system on a disk controlled by the Promise card.

You read the Hardware Notes for alpha didn't you? If not:

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.5R/hardware-alpha.html

=09-jake

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Jarkko Santala <jake@iki.fi>            http://www.iki.fi/~jake/
System Administrator                    2001:670:83:f08::/64



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