From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 27 13:11:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBDA337B479 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:11:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 13pFqE-000Bkx-00; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 20:11:06 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9RKE3C02415; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 22:14:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 22:14:03 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Craig Burgess Cc: mjacob@feral.com, "[-dp-]" , FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: Alpha Pc164 Message-ID: <20001027221403.K2092@freebie.demon.nl> References: <39F9BDB7.201F3E0F@home.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39F9BDB7.201F3E0F@home.net>; from craig-burgess@home.net on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:39:03AM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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