Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 15:54:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 500au Message-ID: <15104.14347.755427.1449@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010514124701.A2926@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105131201020.2835-100000@local.localhost> <Pine.NEB.4.33.0105140936330.8478-100000@nikita.fi.infn.it> <5.0.2.1.2.20010514151609.00a6dc48@www.maiatech.com> <20010514124701.A2926@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien writes: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:24:21PM +0100, Michael A. Smith wrote: > > The "a" models (433a, 500a, 600a) are a tiny bit different from the "au" > > models. They have Adaptec SCSI boards (from which you cannot boot via SRM) > > PLUS the motherboard layouts are a bit different. They *are* physically > > different machines. > > That is NOT true. EVERY `a' model I've seen has a Qlogic 1040 SCSI > controller in it. I am willing to bet someone replaced it with the > Adaptec controller you have. The motherboard layouts are the same. What For "MX5" "a" miatas, the orignal equipment SCSI controllers are Adaptec. I'll bet that somebody replaced the Adaptecs in your MX5s with Qlogic boards before you got them. > do you think is different about them? Or are you comparing the MX5 > models with the GL models? I do know that the `a' models have ATAPI > CDROM drives vs. the SCSI ones of the `au' models. I believe there are FWIW, our "au" models came with atapi scsi drives. > also video differences between the two models. > > Every Miata I have bought for FreeBSD development (5) + the DEC loaners > are `a' modules and all run FreeBSD fine w/o hardware changes once the > firmware was updated and switched to SRM. > Yes.. All Miatas will run FreeBSD just fine once the firmware is switched to SRM. As far as not needing h/w changes, you just got lucky with the SCSI board, and that's an SRM constraint, not really a FreeBSD one ;-) Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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