DEC 3000/700?

[Chris Knight]

Howdy,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Gallatin [mailto:gallatin at cs.duke.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 April 2003 22:47
> To: Chris Knight
> Cc: freebsd-alpha at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: DEC 3000/700?
>
>
>
> Istvan Gyenes writes:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > AFAIK TurboChannel support is not available in FreeBSD 5.0, but it
>  > seems to be available in 4.8-RELEASE.
>  > ( http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/hardware-alpha.html#AEN380 )
>  >
>  > Hope this helps,
>
Didn't think to check the 4.8 Hardware docs - I'd assumed that 5.0
would have been more complete.

> It was never very complete because there are no SCSI or display
> drivers.
>
Well, serial only access is fine, but diskless booting isn't so great.

> Unless you have the urge to port a SCSI driver from NetBSD, don't buy
> this to run FreeBSD
>
OK. Thanks for the info. I'll keep looking for a reasonably supported
Alpha.

> Drew
>

Regards,
Chris Knight
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