Subject: Re: Can Promise Ultra133TX2 use on NetBSD/alpha?
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Takehiro Sakagami <lh1049@mail2.doshisha.ac.jp>
List: port-alpha
Date: 08/05/2003 14:39:06
Thanks back :-)

>> Well, my Promise Ultra100 TX2 does NOT work in my AXPpci33. I don't know 
>> why; Manuel Bouyer suggested that it could be sort of register setup 
>> which is done by the Promise BIOS on i386, but not on Alpha.
>> Or the Promise could have problems with the PCI mapping on some Alpha 
>> machines.
>> 
>> Manuel said that a card with HPT chip (e.g. Abit Hot Rod 100) might work 
>> better. Unfortunately he is on vacation now, so we could not try to fix 
>> my Promise problem on the Alpha :-)
>
>I'm back, trying to catch up with email :)
>With a 133TX2 it may be different. It's known to work in macpcc, it's the
>controller used in recent Xserve. But we won't know before someone tries ...

Mr.Tobias Nygren <tnn@netilium.org> said the following,
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/2002/10/03/0000.html

I will soon buy Ultra133TX2 and set up it on Alpha.

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Takehiro Sakagami
lh1049@mail2.doshisha.ac.jp