Meeting date

[Ronald V. Maggio]

On Saturday 15 June 2002 11:06, you wrote:
>  Ronald,
> Sure I'm interested in the Alpha.  Yes I wish it was a little more
> "friendly" or should I say cooperative...  I picked up the Red Hat 7.1
> Distribution from Compaq ($29 with 60 days "support" - it "boots" to a #
> prompt but still does not see the RAID controller - I think I'm just a few
> minor steps away, hopefully I can get a hint of how to make a "stock"
> kernel use a device driver ...  I have been conversing with a guy in France
> that has similar equipment (Alpha 2100), he has had to do some radical
> brain surgery to get the box to boot - I'd rather not abandon the Raid if at
> all possible. Have you come across any other RAID controller cards that are
> "supported" (PCI or EISA) by the Alpha and Linux AND are available for
> cheap? Joe Lukasiewicz
> PS.  as a lark, I tried to get NT 4 to load and got a similar "cant find
> the hard drives" message so I feel confident it is a similar singular piece
> of the puzzle I am missing to make the drives accessable (fdisk, BSD
> labels, etc....) 

Hi Joe.
Have you also tried these newsgroups on the usenet: m.l.n.port.alpha  
linux.ports.alpha  linux.dev.raid  linux.dev.scsi  c.os.linux.alpha  
a.sys.alpha-micro   I don't know if any or all of them are available through 
your newsserver. Each ISP supplies different newsgroups via the usenet 
servers worldwide. These are newsgroups in English. I use AT&T as an ISP 
others may offer more newsgroups or even less. AT&T supports roughly twenty 
five thousand newsgroups. You may also try independent news servers (some 
free) through your web browser to see if these are available via that means 
or even if more then I've been able to use through AT&T. If you find other 
newsgroups via this option let me know of source (newsserver) and the 
newsgroup name. This is all of course relative to weather your ISP or anyone 
reading this has an ISP that offers usenet newsservers as part of the service 
contract. Most do but the low cost ISP don't offer usenet services.
Well I hope I've been of help even if it is a little. I'll see you at the 
next meeting then. 

If possible I may bring the DEC Alpha with me with all its stuff for you to 
look over, but I most likely will not be able to do much with till I'm ready 
to sit down and give it another try. You see we will not have enough time to 
try an install there since the box is slow and I need to do things at my own 
pace. I would like to write down the hardware setup and install so I have a 
record of what I did for future reference, and also for a short presentation. 
This I feel will take hours for me to put together, but we can chat and look 
over my stuff in the mean time till I start this project again. 

Ron:)