Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:49:42 +1000 From: "Chris Knight" <chris@e-easy.com.au> To: <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: RE: DEC 3000/700? Message-ID: <06b201c3047b$3c914df0$020aa8c0@aims.private> In-Reply-To: <16029.20653.825553.510122@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Howdy, > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Gallatin [mailto:gallatin@cs.duke.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, 16 April 2003 22:47 > To: Chris Knight > Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: DEC 3000/700? > > > > Istvan Gyenes writes: > > Hi, > > > > AFAIK TurboChannel support is not available in FreeBSD 5.0, but it > > seems to be available in 4.8-RELEASE. > > ( http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/hardware-alpha.html#AEN380 ) > > > > Hope this helps, > Didn't think to check the 4.8 Hardware docs - I'd assumed that 5.0 would have been more complete. > It was never very complete because there are no SCSI or display > drivers. > Well, serial only access is fine, but diskless booting isn't so great. > Unless you have the urge to port a SCSI driver from NetBSD, don't buy > this to run FreeBSD > OK. Thanks for the info. I'll keep looking for a reasonably supported Alpha. > Drew > Regards, Chris Knight Systems Administrator E-Easy Tel: +61 3 6334 6664 Fax: +61 3 6331 7032 Mob: +61 419 528 795 Web: http://www.e-easy.com.au
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