Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:45:50 +0300 From: Maxim Mazurok <maxim@km.ua> To: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: isp(4) Message-ID: <20041015124550.GH1446@km.ua> In-Reply-To: <20041015114653.GA3792@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20041015075534.GG1446@km.ua> <20041015114653.GA3792@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:46:53PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: >> Sorry for small offtopic, but... >> I have old alpha in production under FreeBSD: >> >> Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. >> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 >> The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. >> FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #5: Wed Apr 7 13:43:59 EEST 2004 >> root@chinger.km.ua:/var/src/sys/compile/ALEPH >> EB164 >> Digital AlphaPC 164SX 533 MHz, 531MHz >> 8192 byte page size, 1 processor. >> CPU: PCA56 (21164PC) major=9 minor=2 extensions=0x1<BWX> >> OSF PAL rev: 0x1000600020116 >> real memory = 534921216 (522384K bytes) >> avail memory = 516005888 (503912K bytes) >> >> Now, disks in this alpha - old SCSI on sym(4) controller. >> I need change all disks in this server. >> I have FC-AL isp(4) controller and some FC-AL disks. Controller and disks >> are tested under freebsd-i386 and freebsd-sparc64 and worked perfectly. >> >> So, i have two questions: >> >> 1. anybody use isp(4) under freebsd-alpha? > >Not in production, I have used it for some experiments in the past. ok >> 2. can alpha srm boot from isp(4) directly widthout any another disks in >> system? > >Typicall not, given that the SRM console firmware for Fibrechannel only >supports Emulex adapters. DEC/CPQ/HP only support Emulex on Alpha for Tru64 >& OpenVMS, thats why. it's bad, but Qlogic 2100 - it's standart CAM controller. and alpha SRM most frendly to any cards, in comparison with sparc64. I found very old PCI alpha and at next week try to boot from Qlogic FC-AL. -- Maxim Mazurok (MMP2-RIPE)
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