> supported, but will NetBSD recognize the card out of the box?
>
> Second, is it sensible to buy U133 to an Alpha@266MHz? Or is
> the system faster than the disk in any case?

in case of
dd if=/dev/rwd0d of=/dev/null bs=64k

maybe....

>
> Third, is the AlphaStation going to be able to boot from IDE
> (with the latest SRM)? This won't be a problem, though,
> because I have a spare small SCSI disk I can use for booting.

you may boot from floppy if it's supported with SRM or just have SCSI
CD-RW drive