PC164 and the KZPAC raid controller

Richard Loken richardlo at admin.athabascau.ca
Fri Sep 30 13:06:15 PDT 2005


I have a PC164 (no suffix) running 4.11 and I want to put one of my collection
of DEC KZPAC (DAC960) raid controllers into it and upgrade to 5.4.

Will a KZPAC boot on a PC164?

The FreeBSD hardware notes are obscure on this point: they seem to say that
genuine DAC 960 will NOT boot but can be used for other disks but there is a
footnote suggesting that a KZPAC will boot on some systems. 

Anybody know for sure?  

I administer various DS20's and AlphaServer 4100's who are happy to boot Tru64
off a KZPAC but I don't know about a PC164. 

-- 
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   Athabasca University                            :  but you have to earn 
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   ** richardlo at admin.athabascau.ca **             :  - Lynn Johnston



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