> Interesting.  Could be that a later update to the 164LX SRM included this
> support.  I suppose you chould check to see if there is a later SRM for
> the 433a (actually, you'd want 433au firmware -- u == unix) and see if it
> supports booting from the Adaptec SCSI controller (it used to be that only
> AlphaBIOS could boot from the Adaptec SCSI, but that firmware only works
> with Windows NT).

The 164LX SRM has had Adaptec support since at least v5.7, so I would bet
that he just has an old SRM (pre-5, perhaps) on the 433a, and a simple SRM
firmware upgrade would work some wonders.

cheers,

/Andrew