Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:48:57 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl> To: Jason T Hardy <jthardy@uta.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEC 3000/300LX Message-ID: <20000621074857.A81345@freebie.wbnet> In-Reply-To: <8CA6FB0217D9D211AE140004AC4CA5560640F93F@exchange.uta.edu>; from jthardy@uta.edu on Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 05:19:11PM -0500 References: <8CA6FB0217D9D211AE140004AC4CA5560640F93F@exchange.uta.edu>
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On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 05:19:11PM -0500, Jason T Hardy wrote: > Alpha gurus, > > My department has retired a DEC 3000/300LX and I have been fortunate(?) > enough to inherit it. I quickly grabbed the ISO of FreeBSD/alpha and burned > myself an install CD. The hardware guide tells me that I can only run > FreeBSD in diskless mode because code for the SCSI controller was not > available. Is there any hope that a future release will support this > hardware? I'd like to help the effort to port FreeBSD/alpha in any way I > can. Please let me know. It has been under discussion between some of the SCSI folks for a couple of months. But in the meantime more interesting work has taking precedence so it is unlikely the TC machines will see a working SCSI implementation. Unless you are willing to create it yourself. -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org "Do, or do not. There is no try" wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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