From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 27 10:38:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7990D37B479 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.net ([24.0.178.21]) by femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001027173810.INLW14736.femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.net>; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:38:10 -0700 Message-ID: <39F9BDB7.201F3E0F@home.net> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:39:03 -0700 From: Craig Burgess X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: "[-dp-]" , FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: Alpha Pc164 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew Jacob wrote: > > The controller is an adaptec 2920. If I do show device from the prompt > > it only shows my ide cdrom and the floppy device. > > The system was installed via boot disks then a network install. I > > upgraded to the most recent console firmware, which unfortunately isn't > > that recent. > > Ah. Right. > > SRM doesn't support Adaptec. NetInstal onto an IDE drive or get a Symbios or > a Qlogic 1040 controller. > > -matt Even that needs to be qualified: although several symbios/ncr controllers are supported by SRM (bootable), 53C895-based devices (such as some Tekram controllers) may not be. They may not be recognized by SRM. I booted my PC164 from diskette (which loaded the ncr driver) and installed via FTP to a drive on a Tekram DC390 controller with no problem -- until the reboot. It will save future generations countless hours of frustration, followed by feeling silly, to read the machine-specific information which is in HARDWARE.TXT (and which I obviously did not study with due care). It is well written and packed with detailed - and essential - information. craig craig To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message