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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Sten <sten@blinkenlights.nl>
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Subject: Re: 164SX Hardware notes
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On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:15:16AM +0200, Sten wrote:
> Scsi :
> recognised. LSI/Symbios 895 works. Although you might want to
...
> genuine lsi, you're on your own with tekram/clones.

I do not know of any Symbios 89[56] based cards that are not bootable.
In other words, all Symbios 89[56] based cards that I know of are
bootable.  I personally use a Tekram DC-390u2w.


> I got one that really kills my alpha ( openboot errors and

Alpha's do not have(use) openboot -- Sun and PCI Macs do.
Alpha's have SRM for the firmware.

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