Re: General questions about alphaserver 1200 (533AU2)
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:58:13PM -0600, Kelledin wrote:
>
> Any Adaptec model up to and including the AIC7880 (Adaptec
> 2940UW) should get noticed by SRM if you just have a recent
> enough SRM update (v5.8 is the latest, I'm told). I may try to
> update my SRM firmware myself (my LX164 is on v5.1), but then
> again, I may just use an IDE disk to hold my boot files.
You luck out with the LX, but the 1200 does not.
The following SRMs do support Adaptec 2940UW:
1. any EV6-based machine (DS10/DS20/ES40/XP1000) and probably later (ES45)
2. SRM version 5.8 on LX164 and SX164
ALL other older machines' SRMs, AFAIK, do NOT support Adaptecs of any
flavor.
> Any single-ended QLogic SCSI adapters (i.e. 1020, 1040) should
> also get recognized by SRM. They've been supported for ages
> (the original DEC-branded SCSI controllers were actually QLogic
> cards with the DEC label on them).
1020/1040 are fine, 1080 and later are NOT.
Many of the NCR/Symbios/LSI Logic chipsets are also supported, but not
necessarily all. Those that should work are 810/810a/875/895/896,
though the latter two or three (875/895/896) may not be supported on
older SRMs especially the EV4-based, and early EV5-based, boxes. I'm
fairly sure that the 1200 will support 875 and 895, so you should be
able to get to U2W with the 895, but no faster.
Good luck.
--Jay++
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