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Date:      Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:34:28 +0100 (CET)
From:      Sten <sten@blinkenlights.nl>
To:        David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: floppies for alpha/DP2
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.44-Blink.0211081631230.8397-100000@thea.blinkenlights.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20021108000320.GA20372@dragon.nuxi.com>

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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 ?"


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