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Date:      Fri, 8 Nov 2002 00:04:10 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: floppies for alpha/DP2
Message-ID:  <20021108000410.B20948@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20021107143753.V4414-100000@wonky.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:38:15PM -0800
References:  <3DCAEAAD.B98C42F6@mindspring.com> <20021107143753.V4414-100000@wonky.feral.com>

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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.

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