Subject: Re: Installing on a Cabriolet
To: Ross Harvey <ross@ghs.com>
From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/12/1999 20:47:20
As Ross Harvey wrote ...
> : Andy Lauder
> : admin@neuimage.com
>
> [ needs SRM for PC64 ]
>
> > If anyone could help me I would greatly appreciate it, because it appears
> > that I am at a deadend.
> > My only alternative, is to go get a Linux compatible SCSI card, and install
> > Red Hat. And I don't think you guys want me to do that.
>
> Well, you do have various alternatives. I *think* the firmware for a PC64
> is on the firmware update CD that DEC sells. Can someone confirm this? The
Not on the FW update CD V5.3 I have here.
> NetBSD/alpha faq has an old (but possibly still accurate) note on how to
> buy it. Also, I *know* that the PC64 SRM is on the "EBSDK" firmware
> development CD. Apparently, according to our FAQ, you could buy both of
Correct. I have a EBSDK CDROM Ver 2.1 (dated 1996) and
that one has the PC64 firmware on it:
-rw-rw-rw- 1 2000 wheel 22478 Aug 23 1996 pc64_sr.hex
-rw-rw-rw- 1 2000 wheel 7128 Aug 23 1996 pc64_sr.img
-rw-rw-rw- 1 2000 wheel 22560 Aug 23 1996 pc64_sr.pad
-rw-rw-rw- 1 2000 wheel 193898 Aug 23 1996 pc64dbm.cmp
-rw-rw-rw- 1 2000 wheel 545544 Aug 23 1996 pc64dbm.hex
-rw-rw-rw- 1 2000 wheel 509312 Aug 23 1996 pc64dbm.img
-rw-rw-rw- 1 2000 wheel 193956 Aug 23 1996 pc64dbm.rom
-rw-rw-rw- 1 2000 wheel 488790 Aug 23 1996 pc64dbm.sr
-rw-rw-rw- 1 2000 wheel 533504 Aug 2 1996 pc64dia.sys
-rw-rw-rw- 1 2000 wheel 45349 Aug 23 1996 pc64fsb.cmp
-rw-rw-rw- 1 2000 wheel 127748 Aug 23 1996 pc64fsb.hex
-rw-rw-rw- 1 2000 wheel 119504 Aug 23 1996 pc64fsb.img
-rw-rw-rw- 1 2000 wheel 45408 Aug 23 1996 pc64fsb.rom
-rw-rw-rw- 1 2000 wheel 114448 Aug 23 1996 pc64fsb.sr
-rw-rw-rw- 1 2000 wheel 443776 Aug 23 1996 pc64sft.img
-rw-rw-rw- 1 2000 wheel 389688 Aug 2 1996 pc64srm.rom
-rw-rw-rw- 1 2000 wheel 389632 Aug 2 1996 pc64srm.sys
-rw-rw-rw- 1 2000 wheel 17248 Aug 23 1996 size
-rw-rw-rw- 1 2000 wheel 24992 Aug 23 1996 yellow
yedi#pwd
/cdrom/update/pc64
I do, however, from the license stuff get the impression that one cannot
give the SRM away. But wasn't it at one time at gatekeeper.dec.com?
I doubt you will be able to get a CD this old from DEC/Compaq anymore.
I hate legalese English, anybody got an idea what the status of this all
is?
Groeten / Cheers,
Wilko
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