isp(4)

[Maxim Mazurok]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:46:53PM +0200, Wilko Bulte 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.

ok

>> 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.

it's bad, but Qlogic 2100 - it's standart CAM controller. and alpha SRM most
frendly to any cards, in comparison with sparc64.
I found very old PCI alpha and at next week try to boot from Qlogic FC-AL.

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Maxim Mazurok  (MMP2-RIPE)