From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Dec 13 17:34:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from opus.cirr.com (opus.cirr.com [192.67.63.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D9D14A0A; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:34:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eric@cirr.com) Received: from cirr.com (IDENT:eric@egsner.cirr.com [192.67.63.1]) by opus.cirr.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA20952; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:34:04 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199912140134.TAA20952@opus.cirr.com> From: eric@cirr.com (Eric Schnoebelen) To: Mike Smith Cc: shsrms@bellatlantic.net, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Potential Newbie Question In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:10:31 PST." <199912140110.RAA01699@mass.cdrom.com> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:34:02 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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: Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 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 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: 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 -- Eric Schnoebelen eric@cirr.com http://www.cirr.com Windows has detected that a gnat has farted near your computer. Press any key to reboot. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message