RE: SCSI Support for Miata (PWS500a)

[Richard Billingham <richard billingham co uk>]

On Thu, 2 May 2002, Rob Byrnes wrote:
>
> I have three Alphas, a PWS 500au, a Cabriolet and a Multia.  The Cabriolet
> (about 1990 vintage, I think) boots from SRM with a Tekram DC390U SCSI
> card.  The PWS 500au runs FreeBSD since I had problems getting Linux on it
> (machine checks - they don't happen in FreeBSD, dunno why), it boots off
> the internal QLogic 1020 chipset.  The Multia is in pieces, waiting for me
> to figure out how to get the darn thing netbooting.

I currently have an Adaptec 2940 in my PWS433, booting from SRM via
floppy. It's not quick, but I expect you can pick up the Adaptec cards
more readily...

Richard.