isp(4)
Wilko Bulte
wb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Fri Oct 15 04:46:58 PDT 2004
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 10:55:34AM +0300, Maxim Mazurok wrote..
> Sorry for small offtopic, but...
> I have old alpha in production under FreeBSD:
>
> Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #5: Wed Apr 7 13:43:59 EEST 2004
> root at chinger.km.ua:/var/src/sys/compile/ALEPH
> EB164
> Digital AlphaPC 164SX 533 MHz, 531MHz
> 8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
> CPU: PCA56 (21164PC) major=9 minor=2 extensions=0x1<BWX>
> OSF PAL rev: 0x1000600020116
> real memory = 534921216 (522384K bytes)
> avail memory = 516005888 (503912K bytes)
>
> Now, disks in this alpha - old SCSI on sym(4) controller.
> I need change all disks in this server.
> I have FC-AL isp(4) controller and some FC-AL disks. Controller and disks
> are tested under freebsd-i386 and freebsd-sparc64 and worked perfectly.
>
> So, i have two questions:
>
> 1. anybody use isp(4) under freebsd-alpha?
Not in production, I have used it for some experiments in the past.
> 2. can alpha srm boot from isp(4) directly widthout any another disks in
> system?
Typicall not, given that the SRM console firmware for Fibrechannel only
supports Emulex adapters. DEC/CPQ/HP only support Emulex on Alpha for Tru64
& OpenVMS, thats why.
--
Wilko Bulte wilko at FreeBSD.org
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