Subject: Re: Are PC164 based alphas supported?
To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
List: port-alpha
Date: 08/06/1997 13:05:35
On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> Your tricky problem is that you have to get a mass storage
> controller that the SRM will understand. I happen to use
> a Qlogic 1040. Curt Sampson or others have mentioned using
> other PCI controllers.

I can't see why it wouldn't understand the NCR 53c810 on a PCI
card; many, many other DEC machines have that on the motherboard
(still on the PCI bus). It's got the advantage of being cheap (about
Cdn$85), too. It can sometimes be a bit flakey, but I've had pretty
good success with it, and I'm actually using it in production
systems on the i386.

cjs

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