Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:46:53 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Maxim Mazurok <maxim@km.ua> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: isp(4) Message-ID: <20041015114653.GA3792@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20041015075534.GG1446@km.ua> References: <20041015075534.GG1446@km.ua>
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 10:55:34AM +0300, Maxim Mazurok wrote.. > Sorry for small offtopic, but... > I have old alpha in production under FreeBSD: > > Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #5: Wed Apr 7 13:43:59 EEST 2004 > root@chinger.km.ua:/var/src/sys/compile/ALEPH > EB164 > Digital AlphaPC 164SX 533 MHz, 531MHz > 8192 byte page size, 1 processor. > CPU: PCA56 (21164PC) major=9 minor=2 extensions=0x1<BWX> > OSF PAL rev: 0x1000600020116 > real memory = 534921216 (522384K bytes) > avail memory = 516005888 (503912K bytes) > > Now, disks in this alpha - old SCSI on sym(4) controller. > I need change all disks in this server. > I have FC-AL isp(4) controller and some FC-AL disks. Controller and disks > are tested under freebsd-i386 and freebsd-sparc64 and worked perfectly. > > So, i have two questions: > > 1. anybody use isp(4) under freebsd-alpha? Not in production, I have used it for some experiments in the past. > 2. can alpha srm boot from isp(4) directly widthout any another disks in > system? Typicall not, given that the SRM console firmware for Fibrechannel only supports Emulex adapters. DEC/CPQ/HP only support Emulex on Alpha for Tru64 & OpenVMS, thats why. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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