From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Aug 6 14:43:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B234437B401 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:43:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64EF543E72 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:43:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g76LgkFJ050814 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Tue, 6 Aug 2002 23:42:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g76LgiFJ031571 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 6 Aug 2002 23:42:44 +0200 (CEST)?g (envelope-from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) id g76Lgf6H031570; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 23:42:41 +0200 (CEST)?g (envelope-from ticso) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 23:42:41 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Matthew Jacob Cc: ticso@cicely.de, Wilko Bulte , Mike Tibor , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which scsi controllers are bootable on a PWS? Message-ID: <20020806214240.GK48945@cicely5.cicely.de> Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de References: <20020806103734.GE48945@cicely5.cicely.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely5.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:19:49AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Antares makes a fine line of Symbios cards too- with OBP so you can boot them > on sparcs. I have some S-Bus cards from Antares. You can also boot sparcs from Intraserver cards too. > On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 09:08:52AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 01:49:14PM -0800, Mike Tibor wrote: > > > > On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > > > > > Older NCR/Symbios 810 will also work. But the Qlogic is faster/nicer. > > > > > > > > SRM will recognize pretty much any NCR/Symbios chipset, right? I'm > > > > > > Well.. any is not what I would say. For older machines/SRMs the choice > > > is much less, they recognise only older Symbios cards. > > > > > > > thinking specifically of the Intraserver cards. > > > > > > No idea what these are. > > > > Intraserver cards implement a wide range of combinations using > > 21143 ethernet, symbios scsi and chips for other functionalities. > > Nice cards IMHO. > > If they work depend on the symbios chip they use. > > Additionaly there are several older alphas that can't boot from > > controllers behind pci-pci bridges - under which category most > > of the Intraserver combination cards fall. > > I don't know if the PWS has problems with bridges. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message