Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:38:29 -0600 From: "Schroeder, Aaron" <Aaron.Schroeder@qg.com> To: 'Wilko Bulte' <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: 'Craig Burgess' <craig@CheetahUSA.net>, 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: <1F095B0753FCD411857700010333058A03DB906A@waexch1.qgraph.com>
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Didn't FreeBSD just add support for the 5305 a couple releases ago? 4.4 or 4.2? I have a few 5305's at my disposal, those are speedy machines. -----Original Message----- From: Wilko Bulte [mailto:wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:24 AM To: Schroeder, Aaron Cc: 'Craig Burgess'; David O'Brien; alpha Subject: Re: Should I wait for 5-RELEASE for "new" machine coming? On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:26:45AM -0600, Schroeder, Aaron wrote: > 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. Tru64 and OVMS will not run on the whiteboxes. There is a hack in the SROM that prevents this from working. > That practice was the same on the Server products, hence why a Digital > Server 5305 and Alpha Server 1200 were essentially the same machines. > Just that the 1200 was brown, signifying that it was ready for all > platforms. Actually, the whole Alpha Server line was a brown/beige > color. The Digital Server line is white. Only towards the end did > Digital make the blue Alpha Servers, now Compaq carries on with the > blue AlphaServers. You may be surprised, they are probably the same > machines inside. NT Alpha is dead so that makes things easier. The blue boxes are mostly the same as the white ones, except for the SROM. contents. FreeBSD has no problem with either white and blue boxes. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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