From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon May 14 13:37:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B6CF37B423; Mon, 14 May 2001 13:37:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4EKinG02246; Mon, 14 May 2001 13:44:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200105142044.f4EKinG02246@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 500au In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 14 May 2001 13:24:15 PDT." <20010514132415.A821@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 13:44:49 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:54:51PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > 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. > ... > > FWIW, our "au" models came with atapi scsi drives. > > (*sigh*) I've heard "authoritatively" from others what I said above. I > am starting to think nobody knows how DEC configured these systems -- or > maybe there was a long list of options that often got chosen. From what I've heard/read, this is correct; you could specify either Qlogic or Adaptec for a system shipping with NT, but only Qlogic for a system shipping with OSF. It was possible to order an 'au' system with NT, confusing the matter significantly. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message