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Date:      Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:35:06 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        wkb@freebie.demon.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Cc:        lecn1306@ele.etsmtl.ca, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, fujimori@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adaptec 2940UW booting problems
Message-ID:  <200103192335.QAA10886@usr06.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010319231649.B2202@freebie.demon.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Mar 19, 2001 11:16:49 PM

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> >     Uh, I am even more surprised than you guys.  Until I added the Yamaha
> > (yes, it's a fast ultra scsi ), I booted without any problem.  I have two
> > barracudas (one 2gigs, one 4 gigs ultra), one cheetah (9.1 gigs ultra),
> > one CDROM NEC-222 and the Yamaha 8424, all on the narrow interface.
> > 
> >     The SRM sees the adapter as pka7 which is fine.  The adapter can be
> > configured using the Alphabios.  I really don't see why you guys aren't
> > seeing it on SRM.  I have the last SRM console for the SX which is 5.7 I
> 
> Because SRM does not support Adaptecs. 

Why is the AlphaBIOS support still around, if NT isn't?

Does Tru64 work with AlphaBIOS?

It seems that Compaq is either throwing money into continuing
support for a useless console monitor, or that FreeBSD needs
to switch over to using AlphaBIOS (uck).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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