On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Terry R. Friedrichsen wrote:

> I'm buying an AlphaStation 255/300 to run Dunix, VMS and NT...and NetBSD...
> I've read the hardware support Web page, but I just wanted to ask here if
> there is anything I should avoid in spec'ing this system.

If it runs DU, it should be ok running NetBSD.

> The Web page
> also says that the 53c810 SCSI driver is buggy - is that still the case?

Yes, but it's not serious, except for some really oddball drives.
I use the 53c810 in three or four production i386 servers, and on
both my Alphas at home (one of which is my NFS server and router
for my home).

cjs

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