From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Nov 15 5:30:24 1999 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 750E014DA4 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 05:30:21 -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 IAA25236; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 08:30:18 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA16140; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 08:29:48 -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: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 08:29:48 -0500 (EST) To: Michael Kennett Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha PC164SX firmware/booting questions In-Reply-To: <199911150651.OAA03239@laurasia.com.au> References: <199911150651.OAA03239@laurasia.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14384.2571.930654.580911@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael Kennett writes: > > Related to this question is the size of the IDE disks that are supported > by SRM. I've read (on this list) that you can use an old 100Meg drive to > boot, and then FreeBSD will install the drivers for the Adaptec etc... > However, if I was to buy an IDE drive, it would be a `large' (several Gig) > drive -- are these supported for booting (or is the Alpha architecture > infected with all of the PeeCee limitations on large disks)? I'm not sure about the 164sx firmware, but I can tell you that the IDE versions of the AlphaServer DS10s all ship with these 10GB IDE drives: ad0: ATA-4 disk at ata1 as master ad0: 9541MB (19541088 sectors), 19386 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ad0: 16 secs/int, 0 depth queue, UDMA33 Both the SRM & 4.0-current boot fine from those drives. Cheers, 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