From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Oct 8 11:16:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E405C37B503 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 11:16:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 13iKzc-0001lF-00; Sun, 08 Oct 2000 18:16:12 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e98IIGr98621; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 20:18:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 20:18:16 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Craig Burgess Cc: mjacob@feral.com, FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: Alpha PC164 Hardware - 53C895 SCSI controller? Message-ID: <20001008201816.C98525@freebie.demon.nl> References: <39E0B85C.EAC8331D@home.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39E0B85C.EAC8331D@home.net>; from craig-burgess@home.net on Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 11:09:32AM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 11:09:32AM -0700, Craig Burgess wrote: > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > SRM doesn't know about the 895. > > Oh. > > Rats! I could use it in the PC but in order to run both controllers on > the Alpha I'll have to free up a PCI slot. > > D'you happen to know if SRM supports any Ultra/2 controller? You might want to check the release notes of your system's SRM to see what it says. But I'm afraid the older systems don't get their SRM updated to include later model adapters. At some point there is no 'backward' qual being done anymore for newer model adapters in older machines. Been bitten by that before. W/ -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message