Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 23:42:41 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: ticso@cicely.de, 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: <20020806214240.GK48945@cicely5.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208061019300.64146-100000@beppo> References: <20020806103734.GE48945@cicely5.cicely.de> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208061019300.64146-100000@beppo>
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On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:19:49AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Antares makes a fine line of Symbios cards too- with OBP so you can boot them > on sparcs. I have some S-Bus cards from Antares. You can also boot sparcs from Intraserver cards too. > 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
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