From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 8 7:34:52 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 8332137B401; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 07:34:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from thea.blinkenlights.nl (thea.blinkenlights.nl [62.58.162.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D0F43E6E; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 07:34:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sten@blinkenlights.nl) Received: by thea.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix, from userid 101) id 439B239305; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:34:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thea.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BE85D581; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:34:28 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:34:28 +0100 (CET) From: Sten To: David O'Brien Cc: Wilko Bulte , Matthew Jacob , Terry Lambert , Subject: Re: floppies for alpha/DP2 In-Reply-To: <20021108000320.GA20372@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 7 Nov 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 12:04:10AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > 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. > > It is not rare. I have personally booted FreeBSD on a disk one an > AHA-2940UW on a pc164sx, a ds10, and a ds20. As jhb to show you his > dmesg if you don't believe me. Ack to that, I have verified this with an 164sx as well. No clue as to what the 2940uw revision was. I went to a symbios 895 to get u2w, this card boots as well although afaik more luck is required with 895's :). -- Sten Spans "What does one do with ones money, when there is no more empty rackspace ?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message