Re: Alpha parts

[Rob Byrnes <robbyrnes ozemail com au>]

At 06:23 30/05/2002, Mike Tibor sent this up the stick:
> On Tue, 28 May 2002, Island (hpaq.net) wrote:
>
> > Well ... we have all the parts for Alpha PWS systems
> >
> > You'll need a SRM bootable Ultra Wide SCSI controller $99
>
> If he's going IDE, wouldn't it be possible to have SRM boot from a smaller
> drive hooked to the onboard IDE, and then have most of the system reside
> on a larger IDE drive hooked to a faster controller?
>
> I haven't done IDE on any of my Alphas, (and in fact I've never even
> played with a PWS) so maybe there's something I'm overlooking.

I'm pretty sure SRM can't boot from the IDE drives.  Anyway, since the IDE 
interface on the PWS series is PIO only (not DMA) it really sucks.  You can 
use milo to boot from an IDE drive though.

Cheers,
Rob