Subject: Re: Multia and PCMCIA on 1.5.x?
To: Ross Harvey <ross@ghs.com>
From: Feico Dillema <feico@pasta.cs.uit.no>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/28/2001 01:09:07
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 03:53:31PM -0800, Ross Harvey wrote:
> > I just revived my Multia to put it to use again as a home-router box.
> > It would be really perfect for it, but for that I need PCMCIA to work
> > and get the an driver to work on alpha (that's basically all; the
> > machine is headless, diskless, floppyless and fanless ;).
> >:::
> 
> There are a lot of good questions in there that I'll have to look
> at in order to answer, but right away I might mention that a fanless
Thanks... Would be fun have an alpha in the house at work again...

> multia will soon be a dead multia. (Or was the smiley just highlighting
> an alpha space-heater joke? :-)
I know it's reputation wrt heat. I tried to make it into a `silent'
mp3 player earlier, by underclocking it (from 266 to 66 Mhz) and
stripiing it from its disk (and floppy). But I feared it wouldn't
survive always-on operation at room-temperature, as it still got
failry hot. In its new job it will reside in my storage room where it
will be the only heating equipment. It is (litterally) freezing in
that room most of the time, at least untill we have midnight sun again
here in a few months (by that time I may reconsider). Living within
the Arctic has it's advantages when it comes to cooling issues ;-).

Feico.