From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jan 21 12:49:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23319154C8 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 12:49:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA03683; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:49:47 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA28928; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:49:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:49:16 -0500 (EST) To: Wilko Bulte Cc: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: EISA bus on alpha? In-Reply-To: <20000121212718.A2032@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <20000121212718.A2032@yedi.iaf.nl> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14472.50661.495231.63616@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wilko Bulte writes: > Question: /sys/conf/files.alpha and config lead me to believe the > EISA bus is not supported on alpha. Where does this leave EISA slot-equipped > alpha machines? EISA expansion cards appear out, but what if an ISA card > is stuck in an EISA slot? I guess the latter is also a no-go. > > I wish to make a note about this in the alpha/HARDWARE.TXT > ISA cards in EISA slots work. I can even listen to music on my AS500 with its (isa) WSS sound card, which hangs off the EISA bus. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message