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Date:      Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:38:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>, <alpha@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: floppies for alpha/DP2
Message-ID:  <20021107143753.V4414-100000@wonky.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <3DCAEAAD.B98C42F6@mindspring.com>

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On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:18:24AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > > > + isp/sym are the only supported SCSI HBAs; mlx is also supported
> > > > (reason: SRM won't boot off any others, so no point in trying to
> > > > include them)
> > >
> > > 164LX, pc164sx, ds10, ds20 all will boot off of an Adaptec 2940UW.
> >
> > Uh- I sure can't find any SRM that actually *does* do this.
>
> I had the loan of a 164SX that would do this, way back when; this
> was the same box that the Linux people were using for the original
> Alpha Linux port at Univeristy of Arizona in Tucson.

SRM? I would suspect that this was ARCBIOS.

>
> You are unlikely to find an SRM that supports it, since there are
> different version of the AHA card, and only the older version is
> supported (the one that DEC used to sell).
>
> -- Terry
>


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