Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:34:02 -0600 From: eric@cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen) To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: shsrms@bellatlantic.net, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Potential Newbie Question Message-ID: <199912140134.TAA20952@opus.cirr.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:10:31 PST." <199912140110.RAA01699@mass.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith writes:
- > Mike Smith writes:
- > - > Looking in the various FreeBSD resources on the net, I do find
- > - > refs to jkh running SCSI drives on a PC164, so, does FreeBSD support
- > - > IDE drives on this beast?
- > -
- > - They should work, but you can't boot from them (only the PC164SX supports
- > - that AFAIK).
- >
- > Please don't tell my PC164 that it can't boot from an IDE
- > drive! :-)
- >
- > Seriously, with a late model SRM, the PC164 MB can boot
- > from an IDE drive without any problems.
- >
- > Note: I'm currently running NetBSD on that system, and
- > haven't tried to boot FreeBSD off of the IDE drive, so there may
- > be issues in FreeBSD with it. However, SRM understands and can
- > boot from the IDE drive.
-
- Cool. Now I have to go pull the box and see if it works here. Just to
- be sure, this is a PC164 you're talking about, not a PC164LX, PC164UX or
- PC164SX, right?
Yup, it's a MBD-PC164-500, if that means anything.
dmesg says:
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NetBSD 1.4.1 (MILO) #1: Sun Nov 21 20:24:18 PST 1999
eric@milo:/home/milo/eric/work/syssrc/sys/arch/alpha/compile/MILO
Digital AlphaPC 164 500 MHz
8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
real mem = 67108864 (2531328 reserved for PROM, 64577536 used by NetBSD)
avail mem = 53477376
using 788 buffers containing 6455296 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), 21164A-2 (pass 2)
cia0 at mainbus0: DECchip 2117x Core Logic Chipset (ALCOR/ALCOR2), pass 3
cia0: extended capabilities: 21<DWEN,BWEN>
cia0: using BWX for PCI config access
pci0 at cia0 bus 0
pci0: i/o enabled, memory enabled
ncr0 at pci0 dev 5 function 0: ncr 53c815 fast10 scsi
ncr0: interrupting at eb164 irq 2
ncr0: minsync=25, maxsync=206, maxoffs=8, 16 dwords burst,
normal dma fifo
ncr0: single-ended, open drain IRQ driver
ncr0: restart (scsi reset).
scsibus0 at ncr0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
sio0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0: Intel 82378ZB System I/O (SIO) (rev. 0x43)
de0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0
de0: interrupting at eb164 irq 3
de0: Cogent 21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.4
de0: address 00:00:92:91:41:60
pciide0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: CMD Technology PCI0646
pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
pciide0: primary channel wired to compatibility mode
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC AC22100H>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
wd0: 2014MB, 4092 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4124736 sectors
wd0: 32-bits data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
pciide0: secondary channel wired to compatibility mode
pciide0: disabling secondary channel (no drives)
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 (using DMA data transfers)
isa0 at sio0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com0: console
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x3bc-0x3bf irq 7
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
spkr0 at pcppi0
isabeep0 at pcppi0
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
mcclock0 at isa0 port 0x70-0x71: mc146818 or compatible
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
root file system type: ffs
de0: enabling 10baseT port
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Eric Schnoebelen eric@cirr.com http://www.cirr.com
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