Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:19:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Mike Tibor <tibor@tibor.org>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which scsi controllers are bootable on a PWS? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208061019300.64146-100000@beppo> In-Reply-To: <20020806103734.GE48945@cicely5.cicely.de>
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Antares makes a fine line of Symbios cards too- with OBP so you can boot them on sparcs. On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 09:08:52AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 01:49:14PM -0800, Mike Tibor wrote: > > > On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > > > Older NCR/Symbios 810 will also work. But the Qlogic is faster/nicer. > > > > > > SRM will recognize pretty much any NCR/Symbios chipset, right? I'm > > > > Well.. any is not what I would say. For older machines/SRMs the choice > > is much less, they recognise only older Symbios cards. > > > > > thinking specifically of the Intraserver cards. > > > > No idea what these are. > > Intraserver cards implement a wide range of combinations using > 21143 ethernet, symbios scsi and chips for other functionalities. > Nice cards IMHO. > If they work depend on the symbios chip they use. > Additionaly there are several older alphas that can't boot from > controllers behind pci-pci bridges - under which category most > of the Intraserver combination cards fall. > I don't know if the PWS has problems with bridges. > > -- > B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de > ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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