From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Mar 19 15:37:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A99C37B721; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:37:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA12789; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:30:52 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA00aijy; Mon Mar 19 16:29:34 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA10886; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:35:06 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200103192335.QAA10886@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW booting problems To: wkb@freebie.demon.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:35:06 +0000 (GMT) Cc: lecn1306@ele.etsmtl.ca, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, fujimori@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010319231649.B2202@freebie.demon.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Mar 19, 2001 11:16:49 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Uh, I am even more surprised than you guys. Until I added the Yamaha > > (yes, it's a fast ultra scsi ), I booted without any problem. I have two > > barracudas (one 2gigs, one 4 gigs ultra), one cheetah (9.1 gigs ultra), > > one CDROM NEC-222 and the Yamaha 8424, all on the narrow interface. > > > > The SRM sees the adapter as pka7 which is fine. The adapter can be > > configured using the Alphabios. I really don't see why you guys aren't > > seeing it on SRM. I have the last SRM console for the SX which is 5.7 I > > Because SRM does not support Adaptecs. Why is the AlphaBIOS support still around, if NT isn't? Does Tru64 work with AlphaBIOS? It seems that Compaq is either throwing money into continuing support for a useless console monitor, or that FreeBSD needs to switch over to using AlphaBIOS (uck). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message