164SX SCSI controllers, and the list quietness...

Steven N. Hirsch shirsch at adelphia.net
Mon Jan 24 21:40:40 UTC 2005


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Lamar Owen wrote:

> Man, it got quiet...
> 
> In any case, got a 164SX board off eBay good and cheap, and have it 
> installed and AlphaCore 0.9 on it.
> 
> I took the Symbios 53C825 controller that I had in the AS2100 (I am 
> installing a KZPAC in the AS2100, which works fine) and used it plus an 
> IBM 9.1GB UWSCSI drive to do the install.  The 164SX SRM just simply 
> worked with the 825 card, and things are happy.  Autoboot works fine; 
> SRM, aboot, and the kernel all are happy with the generic 825 card.  
> It's not the latest SRM; I think it is V5.4.

I picked up an Adaptec 39160 controller from eBay and am pleased to report 
that (a) SRM on my API UP2000+ recognizes it, (b) Linux boots and runs 
fine and, most important, Tru64 actually boots and runs on it as well!

All around success <g>.  

Steve




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