Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:36:27 +0200 From: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> To: john@atomfx.com Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting Alpha from Floppy?? Message-ID: <20030914193627.145af17f.lehmann@ans-netz.de> In-Reply-To: <3F64A18E.8070000@atomfx.com> References: <3F64A18E.8070000@atomfx.com>
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John Weez wrote:
> I'd like to boot my Alpha 164LX running FreeBSD 5.1 from floppy instead
> of SCSI drive. Is this possible?
If I'm not mistaken, it should be "boot dva0" at the srm-prompt. Look for
"show dev"
> tried are loud too. So, I was thinking of getting an IDE card and
> hooking some IDE drives to it. I did not want to use the internal IDE
> connection of the Alpha 164LX because I heard it is very slow.
CMD 646 WDMA2 controller -> 16 MB/sec (man ad)
Dunno if its that slow... Only device I have attached to is an CD drive..
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