Axp-List Archive
Re: Benefits of Linux/Alpha over Linux/x86?

Subject: Re: Benefits of Linux/Alpha over Linux/x86?
From: Wolfgang Kutscherauer (Wolfgang.Kutscherauer@bmw.de)
Date: Sun Jun 25 22:09:17 2000


b.j.smith@ieee.org schrieb:
>
> Benefits of Linux/Alpha over Linux/x86?
>ble on Linux/Alpha that
> isn't on Linux/x86, including 3rd party?
>
> - Does the DAC960 driver work with Linux/Alpha? I'm looking at the
> new Mylex eXtremeRAID 2000 (StrongARM powered, 4-channel Ultra160)
> for a RAID controller. The latest DAC960 driver supposively works
> with this card -- but is it Linux/x86 only?

I've here a working AS1000 (from 1996) with a DAC960, it works, but it
boot only over
SRM.
The biggest trouble is the poor support from Mylex for Alpha. i didn't
found
config-tools for the DAC960 an Firmware 3.x on Alpha. And the mails i
wrote were answered with "no support for Alpha by Mylex try Digital".
Therefore i had to configure the DAC960 RAID in a Intel-Box an rebuild
it into the Alpha.
All the config-tools i found at Digital/Compaq are only for Firmware 2.x

W. Kutscherauer

-- 
BMW AG Werk Dingolfing
Abteilung SL-24
Wolfgang Kutscherauer
Postfach 1120
84122 Dingolfing

Tel.: (08731)76-24932 Fax.: (08731)76-23718 eMail: wolfgang.kutscherauer@bmw.de

-- To unsubscribe: send e-mail to axp-list-request@redhat.com with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Do not send it to axp-list@redhat.com



This archive was generated by hypermail version 2a22 on Sat Jul 1 05:31:31 2000 PDT
Send any problems or questions about this archive to webmaster@alphalinux.org.