From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Dec 8 19:44:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A3037B401 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 19:44:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail4.sea.registeredsite.com (mail4.sea.registeredsite.com [66.111.73.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B64F43EA9 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 19:44:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from opml@terraflux.com) Received: from terraflux.com ([216.122.242.190]) by mail4.sea.registeredsite.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB93i84E012342; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 22:44:09 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.40] (dsl-65-184-11-93.telocity.com [65.184.11.93]) by terraflux.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id gB93i8598299; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 19:44:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from opml@terraflux.com) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 19:44:06 -0800 Subject: Re: AlphaServer1200 (5305), FBSD4.7 and Symbios53C875 From: oliver To: "Schroeder, Aaron" , Sten Cc: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 AJ, I just tried the FreeBSD 5.0 DP2, and the system loaded but did not recognize the 53C875. At least it didn't stall during boot. Still, why is this stuff in the hardware compatibility listings? There must be a tweak or setting. The hardware listing mentions specifically "Tincup" (AS 1200), and the Symbios 53C875. Cheers, Oliver On 12/8/02 19:32, "Schroeder, Aaron" wrote: > FWIW - I have never gotten anything other than 5.0-CURRENT to load on > those boxes, and I have a few of them at my disposal, of course, I tried > all of them to "make sure." Sure enough, -CURRENT loaded without a > problem, except I couldn't get a SMP alpha to work until DP2 was out, > and, I have not had the time to load DP2 onto a 5305 yet. > > Oh, and one more thing that I could not get working was the onboard NIC > on that SCSI card. Just wouldn't see the network, so I loaded a DE500 > and that worked for me. Maybe DP2 fixed that as well. > > Good luck, > > AJ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message