Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 22:06:38 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 500au Message-ID: <20010519220638.K5197@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010514132415.A821@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:24:15PM -0700 References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105131201020.2835-100000@local.localhost> <Pine.NEB.4.33.0105140936330.8478-100000@nikita.fi.infn.it> <5.0.2.1.2.20010514151609.00a6dc48@www.maiatech.com> <20010514124701.A2926@dragon.nuxi.com> <15104.14347.755427.1449@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20010514132415.A821@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:24:15PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:54:51PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > That is NOT true. EVERY `a' model I've seen has a Qlogic 1040 SCSI > > > controller in it. I am willing to bet someone replaced it with the > > > Adaptec controller you have. The motherboard layouts are the same. What > > > > For "MX5" "a" miatas, the orignal equipment SCSI controllers are > > Adaptec. I'll bet that somebody replaced the Adaptecs in your MX5s > > with Qlogic boards before you got them. > ... > > FWIW, our "au" models came with atapi scsi drives. > > (*sigh*) I've heard "authoritatively" from others what I said above. I > am starting to think nobody knows how DEC configured these systems -- or > maybe there was a long list of options that often got chosen. IDE CDROM support has appeared in Tru64 Unix pretty late in the game. So early systems always had SCSI CDROMS. Current systems (like the DS10s I got 2 months ago for example) have IDE CDs. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Powered by FreeBSD/alpha 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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