Subject: Re: Qlogic boards
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 10/03/2001 22:05:30
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:02:22PM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
> In message <20011003220050.E5415@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Wilko Bulte writes:
> >All ROMs on the KZPBA (unless I mis-remember) are SMD jobs, soldered on.
> >So that would not be an easy thing to do, physically extracting them I mean.
> >Software extracting them, I don't know if it is possible. Maybe Matt knows.
>
> I was assuming that the BIOS was flashable. I guess maybe not.
>
> Ah, well. I found a source for used 11-E boards, which will presumably
> work. The other boards apparently work on 164SX and 164LX systems, just not
> on the original PC164.
So it must be a SRM difference biting you. I once had a lot of fun with
an Aspen Alpine that had an old-enough SRM to give problems using a KZPBA
but only used with USCSI disks. Fast SCSI disks just worked fine.
Lovely problem..
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