Subject: Re: Any experince with this alpha?
To: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
From: Steve M. Acheson <sma@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 08/26/1996 13:57:09
> I've heard of no problems like this... And have used it with several
> HP drives...
Hmm, I think it was thorpej that actually pointed this out to Fred (after
several hours of frustration, etc :-)
> I bought my machines with larger disks. 8-)
The problem here is that DEC sells a few different models, and one is with
bigger disk, but the gotcha is that you lose the PCI slot. It's cheap to get
a 3.5" disk external with all the speed/space you need. It's nice to be able
to drop a 100Mb/s Ether card into the PCI slot, among other things... You do
this at home right :-)
> "oh yeah.
Until we get a couple more developers on the alpha port, it would seem that you are the stuckee, Chris :-)
Satch