Re: srm and scsi controllers.
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jay Estabrook wrote:
> Depends not only on the manufacturer (BusLogic is NOT supported), but also
> the specific chipset - NCR/Symbios 810/875/895 are fine, 860 was not.
>
> SRM supports, in general, only the options which we (DEC/COMPAQ) have
> sold to run under OSF1/DU/Tru64 or VMS. That some cards that we've not
> sold will work, ie some of the SCSI NCR810/875/895 or QLogic or
> (recently) Adaptec ones, or some of the third party TULIP NICs, is
> luck... ;-}
>
> But you're out of luck with BusLogic under SRM if you boot from it; if
> you can boot another way (from a supported SCSI or IDE disk or over
> the net) then you can stick with SRM, otherwise go back to AlphaBIOS
> and MILO...
Thanks for clearing that up :-) I was wondering about if BusLogic was
supported myself (wow, am I glad I didn't buy that other card I was
looking at when I bought the 390F). Is there any way that we can get a
list of SRM-supported stuff or should we just rely on the HCL's on
Compaq's site?
C
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