From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue May 21 17:37:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2631F37B41C; Tue, 21 May 2002 17:37:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.feral.com (mjacob@mailhost.feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g4M0bTg88335; Tue, 21 May 2002 17:37:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 17:37:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@beppo Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Sten , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 164SX Hardware notes In-Reply-To: <20020521173529.A45998@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Older f/w for the 164 probably doesn't grok 896. Or even an 850. On Tue, 21 May 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > 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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message