Re: NetBSD on Digital Personal Workstation 433a

[Stefan <stefan%mansier.net@localhost>]

Hmm mine is failing its SCSI stuff, not sure how or what.
But some quick pictures here : https://flic.kr/s/aHsmAMGtTZ
And a small film of booting from the NetBSD CD-ROM : 
https://youtu.be/Yw51WX2Ofm4

Any assistance appreciated as I know very little about NetBSD and 
Alpha's ;)

On 2019-02-19 11:21, BERTRAND Joël wrote:
> Stefan a écrit :
> > Goodday all,
>
> 	Hi Stephan,
>
> > I have just been giving a Digital Personal Workstation 433a and I
> > thought it would be nice to install NetBSD on it but I am not quite 
> > sure
> > if the system is supported (as I cant get it to boot into the 
> > installer) ?
> >
> > So I suppose that would be major question one really. The system comes
> > with 320MB memory, a digital Q-Logic SCSI controller, two 4GB SCSI 
> > disks
> > and I replaced the IDE Plextor CDROM drive with a IDE Pioneer DVD 
> > drive
> > (because I had it lying around and its a better drive then the 
> > Plextor)
> >
> > Your thoughts ?
>
> 	My PWS500au runs NetBSD-8. All but graphic adapter run as expected.
> With last NetBSD patches, screen resolution is 1280x1024x8 and has some
> glitches.
>
> 	Best regards,
>
> 	JKB