Re: DEC Alpha XL 366 and IDE hard drive
Well if you looked and didnt find, chances are you dont have an IDE
controller. That's not such a bad thing though, cause i've heard
nothing but bad things about built in IDE controllers on alphas, and the
one on my PWS500 is _awful_. It feels like an NFS mount. :P So you can
add an IDE controller to your box, but dont rely on it to boot. SRM
would have to be able to work with it to allow booting. While i'm
fairly certain that it's possible to buy such cards, i'd keep the
booting off of scsi, and buy a good card (Promise ATA100?) and just
compile support for it in linux. I used a Promise ATA100 and it worked
VERY well in my box, that is until something had it's way with all of my
pci cards, and now i have a card that works when it wants to.
Richard Fillion
rick@rhix.ods.org
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 10:13:07PM -0400, Jean-S?bastien Guay wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Once again, I have a hardware question (I'm new to the world of Alphas,
> so perhaps you can direct me to another forum if this is not the
> appropriate place for these questions).
>
> I have an Alpha XL 366 machine, which has a 2GB SCSI hard drive. I
> thought I read somewhere that most Alpha systems had IDE as well as SCSI
> interfaces. I was thinking of adding a 6.4GB IDE drive that I have lying
> around. I opened the machine, and after lots of disassembling risers and
> stuff, I couldn't find the IDE connectors. Does this model not have an
> IDE controller? If not, will any PCI IDE controller I install into it
> work? Or am I better trying to find a used SCSI drive to add as a
> secondary? If so, which kind of driveswill work with the SCSI controller
> that's in the machine?
>
> Sorry, I have no experience with SCSI (only theoretical knowledge from
> reading), and the person I bought the Alpha from had no documentation
> for it... :-(
>
> Thanks a lot for your patience and help,
>
> J-S
>
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