Subject: Re: PWS 433a and 3000/600S
To: Live Wire <livewire@netadel.com>
From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/15/2003 00:39:23
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=20
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.=20
> I'm not so sure about the 433a.=20
I had NetBSD on my 500au bevore I switched to Tru64. It run very well on
this machine.=20
> 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.=20
--=20
tsch=FC=DF,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/