DEC KZPSC

[Wilko Bulte]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 04:49:39PM -0500, Eric Millbrandt wrote..
> The i386 version of the card is called a Mylex dac960pd.  I seem to 
> remember downloading alpha utilities/firmware from the mylex site.  The 
> card is very picky about the memory it takes, which might be your 
> problem.  I needs simms with parity or it won't work.  You can find the 

I think it needs 36 bit FPM SIMMs.  4 or 32MB.

> exact memory requirements in the manuals for the dac960pd.
> 
> I used to own one of these cards until it died one day.  I remember 
> having to flash the card to a "current" bios, maybe 2.73?, before it 

Not BIOS, firmware.

> would work properly on an alphapc164 with Freebsd 4.x.  Flashing it was 
> a pain since the dec utilities only ran under arc firmware.  The utility 
> for building your raid drives also only runs under arc. 

Yeah... good fun huh?

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org