From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 22 0:18:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from deepthought.blinkenlights.nl (deepthought.blinkenlights.nl [62.58.162.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C40D037B410; Wed, 22 May 2002 00:18:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by deepthought.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix, from userid 500) id 6BD30AB; Wed, 22 May 2002 09:18:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deepthought.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39011C120; Wed, 22 May 2002 09:18:15 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 09:18:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Sten To: David O'Brien Cc: 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 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. Please put this in the hardware notes. All I could find was succes with a noname 895. It's nice to know that lsi works when you're trying to escape the clutches of the onboard ide :) > > 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. /me stands corrected will go to sleep earlier :) -- Sten Spans "What does one do with ones money, when there is no more empty rackspace ?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message