From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Aug 1 10:57:16 2002 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 26F7037B400 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:57:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B87CF43E6A for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:57:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g71Hv8oi083224; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:57:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g71Hv870083223; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:57:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:57:08 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Chris Brotherton Cc: Mike Cochran , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will my machine run freeBSD? Message-ID: <20020801175708.GF82778@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <00bc01c2341b$80c32830$6e787043@salamundi.com> <3D406582.5040700@evilelement.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D406582.5040700@evilelement.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-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 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 02:54:26PM -0600, Chris Brotherton wrote: > >alpha machine, a (compaq) "Digital Ultimate Workstation 533a" that I can ... > Many of the "a" series came with adaptec SCSI controllers. These > controllers cannot be booted from when using the SRM console (SRM is > required for FreeBSD). The "au" series came with Qlogic SCSI "Digital Ultimate Workstation 533a" != Personal Workstation (PWS) 500a[u]. Note that many DUW 533a are SMP machines and FreEBSD 5-CURRENT runs fine on them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message