I was able to get my 164LX to recognize (and boot from) a 2940UW in SRM
after updating to v5.8 ... also it will boot from a Symbios 53C896 (which
it is doing now)

-jon

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Jochen Kunz wrote:

> On 2003.01.14 16:47 Live Wire wrote:
>
> > I recently came into a PWS 433a and a 3000/600S.  While I'm pretty
> > sure the latter will run NetBSD
> You have to use serial console to install. Once you have a running
> system you can compile a TCWSCONS kernel to get full graphical console
> and X11.
>
> > I'm not so sure about the 433a.
> I had NetBSD on my 500au bevore I switched to Tru64. It run very well on
> this machine.
>
> > show dev does NOT shot the hard disk. It shows the IDE CD-ROM just
> fine,
> > and the booting procedure shows the Symbios SCSI card (both channels),
>
> > just no way to directly boot from hard disk.
> SRM is very picky about hardware. I tried two different NCR / Symbios
> 53C875 based cards on my Alpha PC164 board and only one was recognized.
> Maybe you shoud try an other SCSI adapter. Qlogic ISP 10x0 SCSI cards
> should work also.
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>          Jochen
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