Re: SCSI-2 and AS200/233

[Alan Young <ayoung teleport com>]

Jeff Noxon wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to use ARC without MILO?  I don't see why MILO is even
> necessary.  I find it a tad annoying even.  You can't build it against
> 2.1 kernels.  The drivers in the prebuilt images don't interact properly
> with my hardware.  My video card gets initalized twice (when installed).
> It can't read the Linux partitions on my hard drive -- I'm guessing
> because I use a 4k blocksize.  It has some nifty features but it seems
> like massive overkill.

Jeff,

You can use ARC without MILO.  ARC is used to boot Windows NT.  (And I only
use that for Lightwave. Honest. Well, that and Quake II...)  ARC cannot
boot Linux.  ARC is really NT specific, like SRM is Digital UNIX specific.  
The reason that SRM can boot Linux is Linus got a Alpha system with DUNIX
to bootstrap Linux to the Alpha.  MILO is needed to take ARC out of the
picture and provide a PAL for the Linux Kernel.

Yeah, the double initializations are annoying.

Alan