Subject: Re: pci_display_console.. addendum
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/15/2000 15:54:28
Yes. You might talk to Mike Smith (@FreeBSD) about this as he has this sorted
out, I believe.
On 15 Jul 2000, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> <thorpej@zembu.com> (Jason R Thorpe) writes:
>
> > On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 06:57:31PM -0500, Mike Stone wrote:
> >
> > > by way of adding insult to injury, although i did make it through the boot
> > > process and into the installation menu, now sysinst can't find the
> > > drives. i assume the default installation kernel doesn't do RAID.
> >
> > No, NetBSD does not yet have a driver for the DAC960. Stay tuned.
>
> I had a look into this issue when I was playing with a AlphaServer
> 2100 (Sable) system at work last year. From the chat I had with the
> folks at Mylex about the hardware, DAC960 units that were shipped in
> AlphaServers had different, custom firmware than "normal" DAC960
> cards, and as such will be somewhat more difficult to support.
>
> - Nathan
>