Subject: Re: Alpha 2100 support/specs?
To: Jon Lindgren <jlindgren@slk.com>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
List: port-alpha
Date: 08/25/2000 10:10:05
<jlindgren@slk.com> (Jon Lindgren) writes:

> I'm looking at an old Alpha 2100 server.
> 
> It's mean looking ;-)
> 
> Do we support such a beast?  Does anyone know any details (busses,
> etc...) about this type of a machine?  This one looks like a fun project.

That's a Sable. There's some hardware documentation avaliable on the
port-alpha doc page, including many gory low-level details.  It might
work; Jason had another go at supporting it a month or so ago but
apparantly nobody was able to test it.

From his mail to this list on July 15:

>I've just put new Sable test images up on:
>
>    ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/alpha/jensen-sable-lynx/disk1of2
>    ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/alpha/jensen-sable-lynx/disk2of2
>
>    ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/alpha/jensen-sable-lynx/netbsd.gz
>
>MD5 (disk1of2) = 75c2d677d7ef7ca1ba63cc8f19afbba2
>MD5 (disk2of2) = da2d8c27cb673a7a8bf5782a85cde2c9
>MD5 (netbsd.gz) = 1542420d1baa6c7db23f8e2bf66509e0
>
>The Sable *should* finally make it this time.  If you happen to have
>a Jensen, go ahead and try it out, too, because I'd like to confirm
>that SCSI is working.

So by all means, burn a couple of floppies and see if this thing
works...

        - Nathan