From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 7 15: 4:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D8AC37B401; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 15:04:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9771B43E3B; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 15:04:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA7N4AHX021160; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 00:04:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA7N4AH2021159; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 00:04:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 00:04:10 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Matthew Jacob Cc: Terry Lambert , "David O'Brien" , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: floppies for alpha/DP2 Message-ID: <20021108000410.B20948@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <3DCAEAAD.B98C42F6@mindspring.com> <20021107143753.V4414-100000@wonky.feral.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021107143753.V4414-100000@wonky.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:38:15PM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.7-RC X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:38:15PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:18:24AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > + isp/sym are the only supported SCSI HBAs; mlx is also supported > > > > > (reason: SRM won't boot off any others, so no point in trying to > > > > > include them) > > > > > > > > 164LX, pc164sx, ds10, ds20 all will boot off of an Adaptec 2940UW. > > > > > > Uh- I sure can't find any SRM that actually *does* do this. > > > > I had the loan of a 164SX that would do this, way back when; this > > was the same box that the Linux people were using for the original > > Alpha Linux port at Univeristy of Arizona in Tucson. > > SRM? I would suspect that this was ARCBIOS. Possible, but I have had other reports on AH2940 being bootable by some (rare) SRM as well. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message