Alpha parts

["Grant Fleming" <gfleming nc rr com>]

I just picked up a PWS 500a barebones and am hoping to get this up and
running soon (woooohooo! Wanted one of these for a while now).

 I hope some of you can offer me some sources for parts. I need Ram and
Cache sims for it in particular.

As I recall, the IDE controller on these was not very fast. Are there any
faster controllers that have drivers for the Alpha (NT, or even 2k) and
Linux? I'd rather stick a huge IDE drive in this than a small-mid sized
scsi....but I'll go with what will work.

I have a Matrox Millenium for it, but was wondering what you would recommend
(again to run under NT/2k and Linux). When I last had a fast enough alpha to
be concerned with such things, none of the voodoo cards, etc had AlphaNT
drivers. My FireGL was *okay*.....

Also, if anyone has a dead PWS, please let me know. I'd love to pick up some
"bits" (cosmetic mostly).

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Grant