Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 09:18:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Sten <sten@blinkenlights.nl> To: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 164SX Hardware notes Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44-Blink.0205220915420.13076-100000@deepthought.blinkenlights.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020521173529.A45998@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Tue, 21 May 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:15:16AM +0200, Sten wrote: > > Scsi : > > recognised. LSI/Symbios 895 works. Although you might want to > ... > > genuine lsi, you're on your own with tekram/clones. > > I do not know of any Symbios 89[56] based cards that are not bootable. > In other words, all Symbios 89[56] based cards that I know of are > bootable. I personally use a Tekram DC-390u2w. Please put this in the hardware notes. All I could find was succes with a noname 895. It's nice to know that lsi works when you're trying to escape the clutches of the onboard ide :) > > I got one that really kills my alpha ( openboot errors and > > Alpha's do not have(use) openboot -- Sun and PCI Macs do. > Alpha's have SRM for the firmware. /me stands corrected will go to sleep earlier :) -- Sten Spans "What does one do with ones money, when there is no more empty rackspace ?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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