From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Feb 8 11:13:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.clubiti.com (loudspeaker.itisb.com [24.65.168.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D5C137B417 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 11:13:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 68553 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2002 19:47:21 -0000 Received: from gandalf.domain.itisb.com (HELO gandalf) (10.10.10.69) by -H with SMTP; 8 Feb 2002 19:47:21 -0000 From: "Seamus Wassman" To: "Andrew Gallatin" Cc: "Wilko Bulte" , Subject: RE: IDE interface on an AlphaServer 400 (Avanti) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 11:18:58 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <15460.8421.398426.602221@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks for your help :) at least I know its nothing I have configured wrong causing this. Unfortunately most of the promise cards are pci, and all my pci slots are full, but if I pick up an old ISA ide controller that should work, right? Seamus -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Gallatin [mailto:gallatin@cs.duke.edu] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:03 AM To: Seamus Wassman Cc: Wilko Bulte; freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: IDE interface on an AlphaServer 400 (Avanti) Seamus Wassman writes: > I have no interest in booting off of it, from what Ive seen in my searches > through the mailing lists this isn't possible anyways, Its booting fine off > of the scsi disks. What I would like to do is be able to attach an extra > IDE harddrive so I can have some more storage space in the machine. Right > now 8GB (2x 4GB Seagate Baracuda) isnt enough space for what I want to use > the machine for, and large scsi disks are out of my price range. > I think the SRM disables the ide interface. osf/1 from the vintage of the avantii doesn't support ide & they probably didn't want to confuse things.. Get a Promise card. I'm using an old one in a Miata because its onboard Cypress IDE is a dog. Highpoint's may work, but I've never tried them in an alpha. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message