On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:33:27 -0500 (EST) 
 der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote:

 > Since the use we ultimately want to put the box to does not involve IDE
 > disk, and the documentation says things about troubles booting from
 > IDE, we borrowed a PCI SCSI controller (an Adaptec 2940UW, I think)
 > from an Intel machine and stuck it in the Alpha.  Upon booting from the
 > floppies, I could disklabel and newfs the SCSI drive, mount both it and
 > the IDE, copy over the installed system, and then installboot the SCSI
 > drive.

SRM doesn't know how to boot from an Adaptec.

You need either an NCR53c810/825 (875 works with Really New Firmware,
too), or an QLogic ISP-1020.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>