Re: questions

[Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au>]

At 05:38 AM 28/03/03, Jens Bech Madsen sent this up the stick:
> tor, 2003-03-27 kl. 17:51 skrev Bob Schmidt:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > Well here we go, I just aquired a DEC 433au with 256mb of ram. It
> > doesn't
> > have a hard drive, I have a 20gb ide I was going to put in it.  It does
> > have
> > the scsi controller, but I don't have a scsi hard drive for it yet
> > because I
> > don't know how many pins it has.  I am planning on putting debian 3 on
> > it.
>
> Just a quick note on the harddisk choice. I've been thoroughly unable to
> get SRM to recognize the SCSI disks in my PWS's. And since I have no IDE
> disks in them, I have to use AlphaBIOS + Milo to boot.
>
> If anyone know how/if it is possible to get SRM on a PWS to detect SCSI
> drives, I would really like to know. The setup for AlphaBIOS is a bit
> cumbersome.

If your box is an -au series, the QLogic SCSI adapter will be integrated 
onto the riser board.  If it is an -a series, then you prolly have an 
Adaptec card.  SCSI cards known to work are the QLogic 1020 and 1040's, and 
Tekram DC-390UW cards.  I believe most cards with a Symbios or NCR 810-type 
chipset should also work.


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