Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 16:47:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: wwoods@cybcon.com Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE Drive in an Alpha? Message-ID: <14363.22498.951801.446968@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <99103010131601.00368@freebsd.cybcon.com> References: <99103010131601.00368@freebsd.cybcon.com>
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william woods writes: > I have an AlphaStation > 200 4/233 that has a 1 gig SCSI on it. I also have an extra WD Cavier 2 gig > IDE drive and would like to know if I can put the IDE drive in the Alpha along > with the SCSI....does an Alpha have an IDE controler? Some alphas do. Yours does not. You *might* be able to get a Promise IDE card ($25 the last time I looked) to work, but such a configuration has not been tested on alpha. Also, IDE on alpha isn't supported in 3.x & probably never will be. IDE on alpha requires the new ata driver which exists only in 4.0-CURRENT. Cheers, Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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