Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 23:49:32 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Ardelean Gheorghe <ardelean@ww.uni-erlangen.de>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install problems with FreeBSD on Alpha Server 2100, 5/250 Message-ID: <20010706234932.D18316@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <15174.12757.755834.181525@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:47:01PM -0400 References: <15173.59981.920716.854856@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200107062128.f66LSVa01518@mass.dis.org> <15174.12757.755834.181525@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:47:01PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Mike Smith writes: > > > > > > I think the Mylex and Qvision should be fine -- we should just ignore > > > them. > > > > Actually, the Mylex will work just fine (with the mlx driver), and the > > Qvision should just show up as a VGA card. > > Err, no it won't. At least not on alpha -- this is an EISA card. > Does mlx have an EISA attachment these days? > > > Is it just me, or is this the EV5 version of the 2100, not the EV4 that > > you were working on, Drew? > > Well, Timothy First from MSU loaned me his EV5 2100A (3 250MHz CPUs), > so we should work on both EV4 and EV5 2100As in 4.3-RELEASE, as well > as the well-tested EV4 2100. But I'm not sure anybody has tested an > EV5 2100 (note the lack of an "A"). FWIW: at least I did not. Our AS2100 is an EV4. > I think this will probably require me building test kernels & > interacting heavily with Ardelean Gheorghe, unless it turns out to be > a hardware problem. Maybe it is possible to run an installation test with Tru64 (or VMS for that matter ;-) to rule this out? W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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