From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Mar 19 15:51:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 023DA37B71C; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:51:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2JNiqg12049; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:44:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200103192344.f2JNiqg12049@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Terry Lambert Cc: wkb@freebie.demon.nl (Wilko Bulte), lecn1306@ele.etsmtl.ca, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, fujimori@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW booting problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:35:06 GMT." <200103192335.QAA10886@usr06.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:44:52 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > 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? Because there are obviously paying Compaq customers still running NT. > Does Tru64 work with AlphaBIOS? No. > 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). Neither. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message