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From: John Kraft <directkraft@yahoo.com>
Subject: Alpha Server 1000A install
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Hi, all.  I have an Alpha server 1000A 4/266 with an
NCR PCI SCSI controller, and an on-board qlogic
controller.  The thing is, I can't get any of the
4.1.x stable branch to install using the normal
methods, for none of the devices are found, though I
have 4 Seagate SCSI drives that are detected in the
Alpha BIOS.  Tru64 Unix 5.0 and 5.1 works fine on this
machine.  Also, I manually expanded the binaries from
a snapshot of 5.x and the machine booted as far as
possible without having the root partition mounted. 
It took half an hour to detect that there was no root
partition to mount.  Only with the discs attached to
the qlogic controller did it even give me an error. 
When the discs were on the NCR controller, the machine
froze at "waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to
settle".  I want to get this machine to work with
FreeBSD!  Any one have any advice, or additional
questions, let me know.  Thanks!

John

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