18 Mar
2006
18 Mar
'06
11:20 a.m.
On Mar 18, 2006, at 11:53 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 11:12 AM -0500 3/18/06, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
PCI to CI interface is called CIPCA-BA. Here:
http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/options/asDS25/asds25_%20%20-
cipca-ba.html
Mike
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 03:41:57AM -0500, 9000
VAX wrote:
I'm guessing that the only other OS that *might* support them would
be NetBSD, though that seems a little doubtful.
I think this is the first I've ever heard of a PCI DSSI controller,
and I'm a little surprised that such a thing exists. The other odd-
ball one would be the PCI CI controller, the thing is, that a CI
controller makes far more sense. All DSSI talks to is a few hard
drives, and tape drives. I don't think it can be used as a cluster
interface (if it did the controller would make sense), so why bother.
Zane On 3/18/06, Wai-Sun Chia <waisun.chia at
gmail.com> wrote:
Of course, they're PCI, that's right in the subject. But what
OS has drivers for these things?
I guess VMS probably does, and maybe Tru64... anything else?
So this is an official DEC product? KFPSA?
Which modern PC-based *nix does this work on? Linux, *BSD?
They were made for Alpha computers, which use PCI bus, I believe.