Re: srm and scsi controllers.
Hmm...the only problem is that it can/might vary by platform type. We
could certainly set something up as to which cards we know to work on a
given platform.
Would that help?
--rdp
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
>
> 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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Rich Payne
rpayne@alphalinux.org www.alphalinux.org
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