From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Aug 6 10:20:27 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 1DAD237B400 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:20:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6887243E3B for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:20:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from mailhost.feral.com (mjacob@mailhost.feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g76HJnY64588; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:19:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:19:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@beppo Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: Wilko Bulte , Mike Tibor , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which scsi controllers are bootable on a PWS? In-Reply-To: <20020806103734.GE48945@cicely5.cicely.de> 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 Antares makes a fine line of Symbios cards too- with OBP so you can boot them on sparcs. On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 09:08:52AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 01:49:14PM -0800, Mike Tibor wrote: > > > On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > > > Older NCR/Symbios 810 will also work. But the Qlogic is faster/nicer. > > > > > > SRM will recognize pretty much any NCR/Symbios chipset, right? I'm > > > > Well.. any is not what I would say. For older machines/SRMs the choice > > is much less, they recognise only older Symbios cards. > > > > > thinking specifically of the Intraserver cards. > > > > No idea what these are. > > Intraserver cards implement a wide range of combinations using > 21143 ethernet, symbios scsi and chips for other functionalities. > Nice cards IMHO. > If they work depend on the symbios chip they use. > Additionaly there are several older alphas that can't boot from > controllers behind pci-pci bridges - under which category most > of the Intraserver combination cards fall. > I don't know if the PWS has problems with bridges. > > -- > B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de > ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message