From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Oct 30 13:48: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 802D814D6D for ; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 13:47:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA23493; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 16:47:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA41830; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 16:47:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 16:47:21 -0400 (EDT) To: wwoods@cybcon.com Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE Drive in an Alpha? In-Reply-To: <99103010131601.00368@freebsd.cybcon.com> References: <99103010131601.00368@freebsd.cybcon.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14363.22498.951801.446968@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org william woods writes: > I have an AlphaStation > 200 4/233 that has a 1 gig SCSI on it. I also have an extra WD Cavier 2 gig > IDE drive and would like to know if I can put the IDE drive in the Alpha along > with the SCSI....does an Alpha have an IDE controler? Some alphas do. Yours does not. You *might* be able to get a Promise IDE card ($25 the last time I looked) to work, but such a configuration has not been tested on alpha. Also, IDE on alpha isn't supported in 3.x & probably never will be. IDE on alpha requires the new ata driver which exists only in 4.0-CURRENT. Cheers, Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message