Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 5 Oct 2001 22:27:55 +0200 (CEST) | From | Sven Koch <> | Subject | Re: can I use an udma-pci card on an alpha? |
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On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 thunder7@xs4all.nl wrote:
> I had a spare CMD646 udma-card lying around, and put it in my alpha > (PWS500au). Everything boots fine, but there seems to be no HD > recognized:
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> Is the bios (which is x86) strictly necessary to set up the drives? I > tried searching the web for 'udma on alpha' etc. but found nothing.
I am using a Promise 20267 in an DEC Alpha XL 300 with kernel 2.4.10-ac4.
That machine has no bios-support for IDE-Drives, but the kernel (booting from the ncr scsi-controller) detects my 60gb ibm-disk without problems and does about 20mb/s.
I've got one real problem: When I do a "shutdown -r now", the machine is completely dead when loading the ide-driver after booting up (module). The only way to get the machine up again is power-cycling. "shutdown -h now" followed by power-cycle works.
And just now, trying to find out the exact harddisk-model for this mail: # cat /proc/ide/ide2/hde/identify -> *boom*, machine dead, network unreachable
Shit - will have to drive to work tomorrow to get my private webserver back running :(
c'ya sven
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