Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 23:01:11 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Eric Millbrandt <emillbrandt@coldhaus.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DEC KZPSC Message-ID: <20060201220111.GA27492@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <43E12CF3.90209@coldhaus.com> References: <878xswb15d.wl%rand@meridian-enviro.com> <43E12CF3.90209@coldhaus.com>
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On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 04:49:39PM -0500, Eric Millbrandt wrote.. > The i386 version of the card is called a Mylex dac960pd. I seem to > remember downloading alpha utilities/firmware from the mylex site. The > card is very picky about the memory it takes, which might be your > problem. I needs simms with parity or it won't work. You can find the I think it needs 36 bit FPM SIMMs. 4 or 32MB. > exact memory requirements in the manuals for the dac960pd. > > I used to own one of these cards until it died one day. I remember > having to flash the card to a "current" bios, maybe 2.73?, before it Not BIOS, firmware. > would work properly on an alphapc164 with Freebsd 4.x. Flashing it was > a pain since the dec utilities only ran under arc firmware. The utility > for building your raid drives also only runs under arc. Yeah... good fun huh? -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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