NIC & ATA Contorller for AS1200

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely12.cicely.de
Mon Jan 19 10:51:56 PST 2004


On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:34:58AM +0900, Ki-Yeol Park wrote:
> I'm trying to run  FreeBSD 5.2R on an old DEC Alphaserver 1200 system.
> 
> 1. Can I use rl(4) ethernet device on this system, though it is not 
> recognized  by SRM Console?

The rl driver should work on alpha, although rl based cards are the
least efficient cards supported by FreeBSD.

> 2. Is there ANY  recommended ATA or ATA-RAID Controller I can use on 
> this system?

Principaly all controllers should work that also work under i386, but
none is supported by SRM so you need a different media to boot from.

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