From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Aug 15 19:27:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles521.castles.com [208.214.165.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63C1A1547A for ; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 19:27:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA15936; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 19:20:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199908160220.TAA15936@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Chuck Robey Cc: FreeBSD-Alpha Subject: Re: FAQ and power for PC164SX In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 15 Aug 1999 22:19:22 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 19:20:17 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The 164SX board should work with any normal ATX power supply; certainly all the ones I've built have. > Anyone know the location of any kind of readme, even if it's got loads > of spelling errors and bad BO, regarding Alpha installations? > > > Anyhow, I have a PC164SX board. I'd heard that the PC164* boards needed > to have a kludged ATX power supply, because the interface offered from > the board to the power supply had no ability to turn the power supply on > and off. Well, now that I have one, and I've read the PC164SX trm, it > says on page 2-13 that connector J1 is for Soft Power, and pin 1, INPUT, > is identified by the string "System Power On/Off". That seems > suspiciously like just that I was told was missing from the power > supply. Could someone please explain about the power situation? I have > a 300 watt standard ATX PS, and I'm loathe to spend extra on a specially > kludged PS unless there's good reason. > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data > chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. > 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | > Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic and jaunt, both FreeBSD-current. > (301) 220-2114 | > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message