From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 26 16: 7:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8204D1523E for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 16:07:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id AAA10719; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 00:54:24 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA50893; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 01:02:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199911270002.BAA50893@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Miata support In-Reply-To: <14399.3430.157707.36604@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> from Andrew Gallatin at "Nov 26, 1999 5:52:31 pm" To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 01:02:51 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] 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 As Andrew Gallatin wrote ... > > Wilko Bulte writes: > > As Andrew Gallatin wrote ... > > <...> > > Well... the newer ones should have a trailing -Px (x is a number) and > > the early ones a trailing -Rx on their part# sticker (should be on the > > cabinet somewhere). At least that is what I once found somewhere on > > the WWW (I think). > > > > Maybe you can check if that matches with your machine? > > Yes, it does! You learn something new every day ;-) Cool.. Don't remember were I found the info though. Anyway, it might help. > However -- We pressured Digital into giving us motherboard upgrades > for our old buggy machines (we had a performance clause in our > purchase order). We actually received a rather polished "upgrade kit" > complete with documentation on how to do the board swap, so I have a > feeling that a fairly substantial number of machines were upgraded. > If this is the case, a machine may have a "bad" part number, but may > really have newer guts. Hmmm. Have not heared that story before. Like you said "something new every day ;-) -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message