Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:44:52 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: wkb@freebie.demon.nl (Wilko Bulte), 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: <200103192344.f2JNiqg12049@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:35:06 GMT." <200103192335.QAA10886@usr06.primenet.com>
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> > > 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?
Because there are obviously paying Compaq customers still running NT.
> Does Tru64 work with AlphaBIOS?
No.
> 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).
Neither.
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