Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 08:29:48 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha PC164SX firmware/booting questions Message-ID: <14384.2571.930654.580911@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <199911150651.OAA03239@laurasia.com.au> References: <199911150651.OAA03239@laurasia.com.au>
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Michael Kennett writes: > > Related to this question is the size of the IDE disks that are supported > by SRM. I've read (on this list) that you can use an old 100Meg drive to > boot, and then FreeBSD will install the drivers for the Adaptec etc... > However, if I was to buy an IDE drive, it would be a `large' (several Gig) > drive -- are these supported for booting (or is the Alpha architecture > infected with all of the PeeCee limitations on large disks)? I'm not sure about the 164sx firmware, but I can tell you that the IDE versions of the AlphaServer DS10s all ship with these 10GB IDE drives: ad0: <FUJITSU MPD3108AT/DD-25-04> ATA-4 disk at ata1 as master ad0: 9541MB (19541088 sectors), 19386 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ad0: 16 secs/int, 0 depth queue, UDMA33 Both the SRM & 4.0-current boot fine from those drives. Cheers, 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
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