RE: Tekram DC390U3W & pws433

["Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris debian org>]

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Hoover, Tony wrote:

> Yes, the TekRam DC390UW is based on the Symbios (LSI) 53C875.  The DC390U3W
> is based on the Symbios (LSI) 53C1010.  The DC390UW will function as a boot
> device in either SRM or AlphaBIOS.  I have not tried the 53C1010 devices
> with SRM so I can't vouch for it's bootability.  Worst case: you may have to
> boot from a floppy diskette or IDE attached hard drive.

There are only two machines that use 53c1010-based chipsets for booting
that I know of (API's CS20 and Compaq's DS20L), so I doubt that SRMs for
any other machines would recognise the card to boot from.  In fact, the
code to do so wasn't even there in Compaq's 5.9 SRM sources, so I doubt
any system that uses a version prior to 5.9 will recognise the card in SRM
to boot from.

C