Re: Alpha parts

[Stephen Lewis <lewis napanet net>]

I have a PWS 500a(u?) and I added a Maxtor 80gig from
Staples for $190 came with a Promise Ultra DMA 133
I downloaded the 2.4.19-pre5 kernel and enabled
Promise support (PDC20269) and it runs just fine.
I installed RedHat 7.1 on a 6 gig SCSI
with QLogic controller which I used to build the
newer kernel. SRM cannot (never will)
see the Promise so I bootstrap via the 6 gig scsi
but you could boot from a floppy once
you have made the kernel. The Maxtor/ide is way
faster than the IBM/scsi. Good luck,
Stephen Lewis


> Subject: 
>          Alpha parts
>      Date: 
>          Tue, 28 May 2002 20:14:21 -0400
>      From: 
>          "Grant Fleming" <gfleming@nc.rr.com>
>   Reply-To: 
>          axp-list@redhat.com
>       To: 
>          "AlphaNT Mailing List" <alphant@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>, <axp-list@redhat.com>
>  References: 
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> 
> 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