DS10 Alpha question = Sata Drive card?

[Bob Smith]

Excellent data thank you Jason!
bb

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 2:50 PM Jason Howe via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> On 6/11/20 11:32 AM, Bob Smith via cctalk wrote:
> > Correct.  One of he BSDs or Linux
> > bb
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> > On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 2:24 PM Zane Healy <healyzh at avanthar.com> wrote:
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> >>> On Jun 11, 2020, at 11:19 AM, Bob Smith via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> >>> Can anyone recommend a SATA card that will work with a DS10 Alpha, and
> >>> which OS supports that card?
> >>>
> >>> thanks
> >>> bob
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> >> I take it you’re trying to run something other than OpenVMS?
> >>
> >> Zane
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> I mean it's a PCI Bus machine (With PCI-X) so any card that has drivers
> for your given OS will "work".
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> The major caveat is that there are no SATA cards that SRM will boot from.
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> My DS20, however has a boot partition on IDE->CFCard Adapter, (which SRM
> knows how to boot from), and then load the OS from the 3ware 8xxx Raid
> card.
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> I'm running Gentoo Linux, but I have to imagine that NetBSD would
> function in a similar way.
>
> --Jason