From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jun 21 12: 1:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay02.chello.nl (relay02.chello.nl [212.83.68.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5441937B9F9 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 12:01:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@chello.nl) Received: from chello.nl ([213.46.78.184]) by relay02.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 2ee4e7c625482f2f2a1950a80f6c8d58) with ESMTP id <20000621054847.BJRL18262.relay02@chello.nl>; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:48:47 +0200 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by chello.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA81366; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:48:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:48:57 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Jason T Hardy Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEC 3000/300LX Message-ID: <20000621074857.A81345@freebie.wbnet> Reply-To: wilko@FreeBSD.ORG References: <8CA6FB0217D9D211AE140004AC4CA5560640F93F@exchange.uta.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <8CA6FB0217D9D211AE140004AC4CA5560640F93F@exchange.uta.edu>; from jthardy@uta.edu on Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 05:19:11PM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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