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.
I've the "OEM Design Guide" for the AXPpci33, so if anyone needs the
"list of approved vendors" (or other information like this) I can
look it up.
bye
Thilo
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Received on Mon Feb 25 2002 - 17:28:51 GMT