From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Sep 20 11:37:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12046 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 11:37:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu (friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu [129.186.185.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11955 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 11:37:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu) Received: from friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA02240; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 13:36:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu) Message-Id: <199809201836.NAA02240@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Andrew Gallatin cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE support? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Sep 1998 14:23:50 EDT." <13829.17656.60595.593962@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 13:36:37 -0500 From: Chris Csanady Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >Chris Csanady writes: > > I know this is far fetched, but are there any plans for making > > IDE on the alpha work in the near future? I would really like to > >I'm sure it will get done eventually, but I don't think its at the top >of anybody's list. Doug? > > > play with FreeBSD/alpha, although all of our 164LX's only have IDE > > disks. > >Hey.. will the SRM console boot off of an IDE drive on a 164LX? I was >pleasantly surprised to find that it will on a new miata (DPW500) Yes, it will. I have booted NetBSD on a 164LX with IDE in the past. It was somewhat confused about the root device, but it still worked fine. > > Another thing--does anyone know if it is possible to get SRM on > > the Samsung UX2 boards? (Or even if their PCI is as horrible > > broken as it is on the LX?) > >Based on a conversation at USENIX with somebody from Harddata, I don't >think the SRM console will be available for the UX series. > >Ack! Are all LX boards horribly broken? I was assuming they'd be like >Miatas, and brand new boards would have a newer revision 21174.. As far as I can tell. :( I just had a chance to play with the Rev C0 boards, and they still suck just as much. I believe the C0 is the latest rev, although I am not absolutely sure. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message