Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 22:14:03 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Craig Burgess <craig-burgess@home.net> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, "[-dp-]" <dp@penix.org>, FreeBSD-alpha mailing list <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Alpha Pc164 Message-ID: <20001027221403.K2092@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <39F9BDB7.201F3E0F@home.net>; from craig-burgess@home.net on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:39:03AM -0700 References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010261044310.3424-100000@zeppo.feral.com> <39F9BDB7.201F3E0F@home.net>
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On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:39:03AM -0700, Craig Burgess wrote: > 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. Generally speaking 895 is recognised using recent SRM versions for *recent* hardware. > 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. Thanks for your kind words ;-) -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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