From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Nov 1 09:21:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA05529 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 09:21:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA05520 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 09:21:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA00484; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 17:20:09 GMT Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 17:20:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Simon Shapiro , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith Subject: Re: Installing In-Reply-To: <19567.909940107@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > The problem is that the SRM firmware (which is what we currently use) can > > only boot from scsi hardware for which it has a built-in driver. As far > > as I know, that list is limited to isp, ncr and possibly ahc hardware. > > Not ahc last I checked on my Durango box, but perhaps there has been > an update? I guess I should check - I just assumed that SRM being a > cost item (I paid $170 for my copy) meant that you could pretty much > forget about any free upgrades. You can download updates from ftp.digital.com. It takes some figuring out to decide which bits to download and how to install them but there is a lot of stuff there. I don't really know about ahc support in SRM. I just remember Andrew Gallatin mentioning that he was going to swap an isp for an ahc in one system when we were going through a rough patch and the isp driver was suspected (it wasn't the culprit in the end, it was breakage caused by fsck). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message