From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Nov 1 13:34:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09789 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 13:34:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09639 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 13:34:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA02161; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 16:34:07 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA16326; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 16:34:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 16:34:05 -0500 (EST) To: Doug Rabson Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing In-Reply-To: References: <19567.909940107@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13884.51812.252484.976947@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Rabson writes: > > I don't really know about ahc support in SRM. I just remember Andrew > Gallatin mentioning that he was going to swap an isp for an ahc in one > system when we were going through a rough patch and the isp driver was > suspected (it wasn't the culprit in the end, it was breakage caused by > fsck). Sorry to mislead you; at that point I was doing all my booting via bootp, so the lack of ahc support in the SRM console didn't bother me at all. BTW, the only adaptec card that I know of which can be booted off of via the SRM console is the EISA host adaptor that came inside the DEC 2000 & the DECpc AXP 150. I'm not at all sure if the SRM console in other boxes with EISA buses (eg, an AS500) would know what to do with one of these anyway. On the other hand, you can boot from an IDE disk on a Digital Personal Workstation. Digital won't admit it, but Digital UNIX 4.0d boots & runs just fine with an IDE disk as its root disk. I imagine this will work for us once IDE support makes it into FreeBSD/alpha. 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