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Date:      Fri, 26 Nov 1999 17:52:31 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Miata support
Message-ID:  <14399.3430.157707.36604@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199911262144.WAA09138@yedi.iaf.nl>
References:  <14398.61799.797803.755607@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <199911262144.WAA09138@yedi.iaf.nl>

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Wilko Bulte writes:
 > As Andrew Gallatin wrote ...

<...>
 > Well... the newer ones should have a trailing -Px (x is a number) and
 > the early ones a trailing -Rx on their part# sticker (should be on the
 > cabinet somewhere).  At least that is what I once  found somewhere on
 > the WWW (I think).
 > 
 > Maybe you can check if that matches with your machine?

Yes, it does!  You learn something new every day ;-)

However -- We pressured Digital into giving us motherboard upgrades
for our old buggy machines (we had a performance clause in our
purchase order).  We actually received a rather polished "upgrade kit"
complete with documentation on how to do the board swap, so I have a
feeling that a fairly substantial number of machines were upgraded.
If this is the case, a machine may have a "bad" part number, but may
really have newer guts.

 > > The earlier miatas have a horribly buggy pci chipset which cannot do
 > 
 > Is that an early Pyxis chipset?

Yes.

Drew

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