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Date:      Thu, 25 Sep 2003 23:07:45 +0200
From:      "'Wilko Bulte'" <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        X-Ripper <xripper@itelefonica.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD-5.1R and ES-40
Message-ID:  <20030925210745.GB3787@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <003501c38287$51483b70$6e0aa8c0@intranet.telecom.eng.br>
References:  <20030924094401.GA923@freebie.xs4all.nl> <003501c38287$51483b70$6e0aa8c0@intranet.telecom.eng.br>

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On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:33:38AM -0300, X-Ripper wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:28:40PM +0000, xripper wrote:
> > 
> > > The Mylex controller has the 2.73 firmware and I have 5 x 
> > 9Gb on RAID- 
> > > 5 and 1 x 9Gb as a spare disk.
> > > 
> > > Any help on this?
> > > 
> > > One other question: On the hardware notes for this release, it says
> > > that it's not possible to boot from Mylex controllers due to SRM 
> > 
> > Where did you read that please?
> > 
> > The Mylex DAC960 models DEC/CPQ sold for use on Alpha are 
> > bootable from SRM.
> 
> On the hardware notes for the 5.1 Release, under the disk controller
> section, talking about the Mylex card.
> 
> Here goes the URL:
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/hardware-alpha.html#AEN1446

The KZPSC and PZPAC are definitely bootable from SRM. Whether FreeBSD/alpha
will work OK with them as a boot device I am not able to verify. But this
doc is plain wrong.

W/

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|   / o / /_  _   		wilko@FreeBSD.org
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