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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.

-- 
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also.  But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view.  [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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