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Date:      Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:38:24 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        "Schroeder, Aaron" <Aaron.Schroeder@qg.com>
Cc:        "'Craig Burgess'" <craig@CheetahUSA.net>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, alpha <FreeBSD-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Should I wait for 5-RELEASE for "new" machine coming?
Message-ID:  <15502.4832.856852.697214@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1F095B0753FCD411857700010333058A03DB9052@waexch1.qgraph.com>
References:  <1F095B0753FCD411857700010333058A03DB9052@waexch1.qgraph.com>

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Schroeder, Aaron writes:
 > The 5305 was released by Digital as the "NT only" machine. Although it has
 > SRM on it, it was only "certified" to run NT.
 > In the Digital world, this first started with their StorageWorks products,
 > but the RAID in the white casings was certified as "NT only". The blue and
 > brown bricks were certified for all 3 platforms Digital worked on, NT, VMS,
 > and Digital UNIX.

At least for some of the NT only boxes, the SRM was hacked to use a
negative hwrpb->rpb_type.  This allowed them to easily prevent Tru64
and OVMS from running on it.  We just multiply by -1 when we find one
of these..

Drew

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