From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 17 06:14:15 2003 Return-Path: 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 41FDC37B401 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 06:14:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B6D643FDD for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 06:14:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3HDDvpH064029; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:13:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h3HDDtCa064028; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:13:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:13:55 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Chris Knight Message-ID: <20030417131355.GA64013@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <16029.20653.825553.510122@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <06b201c3047b$3c914df0$020aa8c0@aims.private> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <06b201c3047b$3c914df0$020aa8c0@aims.private> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-OS: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DEC 3000/700? X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:14:15 -0000 On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 10:49:42AM +1000, Chris Knight wrote: > > > AFAIK TurboChannel support is not available in FreeBSD 5.0, but it > > > seems to be available in 4.8-RELEASE. But it was not tested at all for 4.8 so... > Didn't think to check the 4.8 Hardware docs - I'd assumed that 5.0 > would have been more complete. 5- dropped support for DEC3000 altogether. > > It was never very complete because there are no SCSI or display > > drivers. A long time ago SCSI worked on DEC3000 IIRC (pre-CAM era). If you want to run this box go for NetBSD. > > Unless you have the urge to port a SCSI driver from NetBSD, don't buy > > this to run FreeBSD You don't want to *buy* a DEC3000 anyway. By now they should be free from your neighbourhood dumpster. They are neat pieces of engineering, built like a tank etc. But just completely obsolete by now. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte