Hi, > > As of disks, I have a one disk (Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5TB), > > which I can attach for a brief period of time into my Alpha, using PCI > > SATA controler. But I think other people is already using such disks > > in their machines. Can anybody confirm? > > I have a 1.5TB SATA disc interfaced via a PCI-X SATA controller in my Alpha. > Has been working fine for quite some time. Also a lot faster than the > onboard qlogic SCSI. I still have a (much smaller) SCSI disc as the boot disc > since SRM won't boot SATA discs or Compact-Flash on an IDE interface.
Same here. I have also a large SATA disk on a 15$ PCI-SATA controller which is still much faster than the Qlogic 1040 in my AlphaStation 500. You cannot boot from it, as SRM on AlphaStation does neither know IDE disk nor boot from SATA (of course). It only shows the controller (a SIL3114) as SCSI or storage controller (!!!) but with no discs attached. I removed the SCSI disk and the floppy drive and replaced the floppy drive by an old SCSI-ZIP-Drive. This ZIP-100 drive is partitioned the BSD way and the boot partition mounted as /boot with ext2 and SRM boots fine from it. The / partition is on the SATA drive. The good thing with the ZIP drive is, that it does not spin all the time and so is in somehow low-power sleep state :-) I also tried a CF card using a SCSI-IDE adaptor, but I got SRM not booting from it (it showed the CF as a SCSI harddisk, but had read error on booting -- Linux itself was able to access the CF card when booted otherwise). This alpha also has an PCI USB2.0 controller :-) So all you need is running and working. A PCI firewire controller was also working fine (not in use anymore). Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
