25 Feb
2002
25 Feb
'02
6:08 p.m.
Thilo Schmidt wrote:
On 25-Feb-2002 Ethan Dicks wrote:
>> Everyone I know who owns AXP runs either *BSD or Linux or OpenVMS,
>> including me. NetBSD flat screams on the LX164.
>
> Nothing screamed on my AXPpci133 until I found enough old cache chips
> that the board liked. There's a list of "approved vendors" for those
> cache chips... they aren't kidding... I had to try parts from four or
> five old 486 motherboards to get a set of cache SRAMs that would let
> the Alpha boot. Much happier now. Wish I had 1MB, but 256MB is lots
> better than nothing.
Last year I bought two AXPpci133 and after some trouble I managed
to get OpenVMS 7.2 Hobbyist installed. With an real DEC nic I also
installed TCP/IP on it however it is really unreliable even for
hobbyist use. For some unknown reason I could never run it with 64M
of ram with the DE203 nic but only 48M. It bugchecks frequently, so
I really prefer my old VAXstation 3100 which is REALLY reliable.
A freind of mine also bough one of these AXPpci133 and used it a while
with linux but it was a slow poke (spelling??) maybe it works well
only with NT (yuck) of Tru64 (never tried it)
e.
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