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                        "*": "The [http://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=SCSI2SD SCSI2SD card] connects to a 50-pin SCSI bus and emulates a hard disk using storage on an SD memory card.\n\nIt is seen as a bootable device in the Alpha SRM, which enables it to be used to load a Linux kernel. The kernel can then load the rest of the OS from any other device in the machine that it has a driver for. By only using it to load the kernel this avoid questions on whether the SD card has sufficient performance for a regular filesystem. More details will be published soon.\n\nIt can be purchased [http://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=SCSI2SD here] for a reasonable price.\n\n== Booting example ==\n\n* System: Compaq XP-1000 Professional Workstation (Alpha EV67)\n* SCSI interface: The SCSI2SD was plugged in to a 50-pin socket on a QLogic SCSI card, which was in a PCI slot.\n* Boot image: A raw ISO image of Debian 5.0 net installer CD-ROM was copied to a 2GB SD card, and the card was inserted in to the SCSI2SD card.\n* Date first tested: Sun 7 Dec 2014\n\nThe boot command at the SRM was:\n\n<pre>\n>>> boot dkb0\n</pre>\n\nThe system loaded the aboot boot loader, followed by the Linux kernel.\n\nThe following is taken from the dmesg output, and shows the device being recognised by the kernel:\n\n<pre>\n[4194016.994263] scsi0 : QLogic QLA1040 PCI to SCSI Host Adapter\n[4194016.994263]        Firmware version:  7.65.06, Driver version 3.26\n[4194016.994263] qla1280: QLA1040 found on PCI bus 1, dev 6\n[4194016.994263] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access      codesrc          SCSI2SD  3.6 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS\n[4194016.995240] scsi(0:0:0:0): Sync: period 25, offset 0, Wide\n</pre>\n\n<pre>\n[4194020.671019] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 3862528 512-byte hardware sectors (1978 MB)\n[4194020.671019] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off\n[4194020.671019] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 08\n[4194020.671996] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA\n[4194020.672972] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 3862528 512-byte hardware sectors (1978 MB)\n[4194020.672972] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off\n[4194020.672972] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 08\n[4194020.714964] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA\n[4194020.714964]  sda: unknown partition table\n[4194020.767699] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk\n</pre>\n\nThe following shows some further diagnostic information once the system had booted.\n\n<pre>\n# uname -a\nLinux fermat 2.6.26-2-alpha-generic #1 Sun Mar 4 21:08:03 UTC 2012 alpha GNU/Linux\n</pre>\n\n<pre>\n# cat /proc/scsi/scsi\nAttached devices:\nHost: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00\n  Vendor:  codesrc Model:          SCSI2SD Rev:  3.6\n  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI  SCSI revision: 02\n</pre>\n\n<pre>\n# blkid /dev/sda\n/dev/sda: LABEL=\"Debian 5.0.10 alpha Bin-1\" TYPE=\"iso9660\"\n</pre>\n\n== Throughput ==\n\nA read throughput test showed a speed of 1.7MB/s, which is similar to the performance quoted by the card manufacturer and may be limited by the SD card itself. Although slow compared to a modern hard disk, it is fine for use as a boot disk.\n\n<pre>\n# dd if=/dev/sda of=sda-dd-file\n3862528+0 records in\n3862528+0 records out\n1977614336 bytes (2.0 GB) copied, 1156.07 s, 1.7 MB/s\n</pre>"
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                        "*": "Alpha SRM Firmware (aka SRM console) is used by Alpha systems as Unix-style boot firmware. It is required for Tru64 and OpenVMS. Linux can be booted from SRM using [[aboot]].\n\n* [http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/technology/literature/srmcons.pdf Alpha SRM Console for Alpha Microprocessor Motherboards User\u2019s Guide]\n* [http://www.alphalinux.org/faq/SRM-HOWTO/index.html SRM Firmware Howto]"
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