From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 22 03:17:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org 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 00F7916A41F for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 03:17:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B950A43D55 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 03:17:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6M3HGf0041539; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:17:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id j6M3HFRm041538; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:17:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:17:15 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Ulrich Message-ID: <20050722031715.GC41313@dragon.NUXI.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, Ulrich References: <20050721213241.28305.qmail@igel.cyberlink.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050721213241.28305.qmail@igel.cyberlink.ch> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PWS500a (Mitia) first install X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 03:17:23 -0000 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)