Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:17:15 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Ulrich <freebsd-alpha@infopuls.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PWS500a (Mitia) first install Message-ID: <20050722031715.GC41313@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20050721213241.28305.qmail@igel.cyberlink.ch> References: <20050721213241.28305.qmail@igel.cyberlink.ch>
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:32:41PM +0200, Ulrich wrote: > Hi Everybody > > I'm familiar with x86 based FreeBSD for about 4 years using 4.1 - 4.9 on an > Intel box. > > I bought a used PWS500a with two 2 GB disks attached to an Adaptec2940(UW) > SCSI controller and a Toshiba ATAPI CD-ROM drive attached to a second SCSI > bus. From the FreeBSD technical documentation I learnt that it isn't > possible to boot from SCSI disks attached to an Adaptec controller. Since > I'm also familiar with Alphas I know that it isn't that simple to boot them > from floppy either. > > I would be happy if someone could give me some advice what I should buy and > how I should proceed to get the box running freebsd 4.11. I thought of > buying an IDE disk and removing the 2 small SCSI disks which have > Windows/NT 4 installed on them. I already opened the box and detected that > there isn't much space left so I doubt whether I find a place where I can > put the IDE drive. I would buy a Qlogic 1040 or LSI 'sym(4)' card cheep on eBay. The IDE conroller in the PWS500a is simply a POS. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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