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Date:      Sat, 07 Jul 2001 13:17:59 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        obrien@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Install problems with FreeBSD on Alpha Server 2100, 5/250 
Message-ID:  <200107072018.f67KHx701361@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Jul 2001 11:57:37 PDT." <20010707115737.F16759@dragon.nuxi.com> 

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> On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 01:20:53AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > > mlx *should* have an EISA attachment, since I have all the hardware and
>  
> > > > docs, but I don't have an EISA machine that I can make it work in.  
> > > > They're all nasty old Intel boxes, and none of them work right. 8(
> > > 
> > > I thought BSDi^WWR had a AS2100 in-house? sable.freebsd.org IIRC. Or is
> > > that gone now?
> > 
> > I work for Apple.
> 
> The AS2100 is a FreeBSD Project resource, not Wind River.  What's your
> shipping address?  

I have a) stairs, and b) crutches.

> Alternately, you can put some boards in our hands and you have the same
> serial console and power console access that Andrew used when he did the
> initial port.

You have a robot arm that can insert and remove disks from the RAID box? 
8)  Seriously, though, the RAID config utility is a run-locally deal, and 
all the cards I have have x86 BIOS code in them.  If you turn up an AXP 
EISA Mylex, this would be a feasible thing to do.

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