[plug] AlphaServer 1000 4/266

[Simon Scott]

	Turbo Channel?

	Yeh, the ram in mime is 4 banks of 5, 72 pin 36 bit parity ram.
Luckily I *might* be able to source more, but it has all banks filled at has
a whopping 112M :)

	I dont care if the graphics card is support really, Ill make do with
serial console. Although installing might become cumbersome.

	The cpu and ram dont excite me. What excites me is the RAID card in
it and the SCSI drive stack that came with it. Finally I get to play with
some hardware RAID.

	I cant actually find a simple list of alpha models that RH supports,
any clues?





	From:	Leon Brooks <leon at brooks.fdns.net> on 12/09/2001 10:58 AM
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	Subject:	Re: [plug] AlphaServer 1000 4/266

	Simon Scott wrote:
	> Subject: [plug] AlphaServer 1000 4/266
	> Yesterday I managed to obtain an alpha cheaply, and was just
	> wondering if anyone had similar and could tell me

	If it's TurboChannel, there's a chance you can get one of the BSDs
to go 
	on it. A very few models will run Linux but not the graphics cards
(ie 
	serial console only). If it's not TurboChannel then AFAIK it should
be 
	happy.

	I have a 64MB TurboChannel DEC Alpha. The 64MB is made of 64 (I kid
you 
	not) funny SIMMs that look like the 168-pin SIMMs but aren't (and
don't 
	fit). The whole lot is arranged in a streamlined fashion so that the
air 
	from five (5) large fans arrayed across oen side of the case can
blow 
	freely across them.

	Amazing stuff, but not (yet) very useful to me.




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