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Date:      Wed, 1 Feb 2006 23:01:11 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Eric Millbrandt <emillbrandt@coldhaus.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DEC KZPSC
Message-ID:  <20060201220111.GA27492@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <43E12CF3.90209@coldhaus.com>
References:  <878xswb15d.wl%rand@meridian-enviro.com> <43E12CF3.90209@coldhaus.com>

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On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 04:49:39PM -0500, Eric Millbrandt wrote..
> The i386 version of the card is called a Mylex dac960pd.  I seem to 
> remember downloading alpha utilities/firmware from the mylex site.  The 
> card is very picky about the memory it takes, which might be your 
> problem.  I needs simms with parity or it won't work.  You can find the 

I think it needs 36 bit FPM SIMMs.  4 or 32MB.

> exact memory requirements in the manuals for the dac960pd.
> 
> I used to own one of these cards until it died one day.  I remember 
> having to flash the card to a "current" bios, maybe 2.73?, before it 

Not BIOS, firmware.

> would work properly on an alphapc164 with Freebsd 4.x.  Flashing it was 
> a pain since the dec utilities only ran under arc firmware.  The utility 
> for building your raid drives also only runs under arc. 

Yeah... good fun huh?

-- 
Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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