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<A title=jlukasiewicz@yahoo.com href="mailto:jlukasiewicz@yahoo.com">Joseph
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=nflug@nflug.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 22, 2002 5:36
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Alpha, additional notes and
a question...</DIV>
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<P>Ronald (Ron),
<P>I read till my eyes bled...I was up till 3AM that night. Some of the
info was unbelieveable - In fact it inspired me to look at a few other
avenues. I'd like to get a copy of the Red Hat you have ... I just
picked up blank CD's today. I know it sound like a little overload - BUT -
perhaps we could do a dual load - BOTH Alpha's at the same time. Since
yours is a desk top size perhaps we could arrange a date/time for a visit?
<P>Anytime anyway. All we have to do is arrange a time and date where we can
get all that wants to watch and or get involved work on this. One thing though
it may take a few hours. In other words many hours! We need the ability to
have as much time as needed to do this for this is not like doing an intel box
thats for dam sure! I'll burn the disks as soon as I get a chance to do it.
All the info I sent as an attachments took a little over a year and theres
still more info out there. Especially concerning your box which is a lot more
complicated than mine. Well we'll have to plan it. Let me get through this
week end and I'll see how's my time frame for the rest of this month or we can
plan for it for sometime in June. Ok?
<P>Ron:)
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<P>I have a feeling though that the driver issue for the DAC960 Raid card may
still come into play...
<P>Joe Lukasiewicz
<P> <B><I>Ronald Maggio <r.v.maggio@worldnet.att.net></I></B>
wrote:
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Original Message -----<BR>From: "Robert Meyer" <MEYER_RM@YAHOO.COM><BR>To:
<NFLUG@NFLUG.ORG><BR>Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 2:07 PM<BR>Subject: Re:
Alpha, additional notes and a question...<BR><BR><BR>> Well, most newer
kernels in distributions don't need to be recompiled to<BR>> support a
'standard' or well known device. A lot of the documentation<BR>> for
devices talk about building kernels, assuming that support
isn't<BR>already<BR>> there. I suspect that if you can get an install
started, the RAID card<BR>> will be recognized correctly. I just did an
install of RedHat
7.2<BR><--------------------------snip-----------------------------------------><BR>True
from what I've read fo far, but I think that RedHat 7.1 should
install<BR>the same way with the<BR>same drivers already available in
RedHat. The only thing is that the latest<BR>version of RedHat ! for Alpha's
is 7.1.<BR>I would recommend RedHat since it is the most use and well knowen
for<BR>Alpha's. Now mind you there are a few<BR>others out there. Have you
read any of the info I zipped out to you and the<BR>group about Alpha's? I
sent web site links<BR>and seved web pages stock full of info on the
subject, but I will admit its<BR>mostly on the model I own. I does pertain
to<BR>the subject generally. I have it and as I said I'll make a copy of it
for<BR>you unless your going to downloaded it yourself.<BR>I had someone
else download it for my because I only have dialup service. It<BR>is four
full cd's worth! It would have taken<BR>me well over a week to download it
with dialup service. Well if I can be of<BR>anymore assistance let me
know.<BR><BR>Ron:)<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>on a brand<BR>> new Compaq server
with an integral RAID and it installed straight up,<BR>without<BR>> any
special handling, other than the Compaq utilities for initializing
the<BR>> array and! installing Compaq Diagnostics.<BR>><BR>>
Probably should have the same situation with an Alpha processor<BR>>
distribution from one of the main vendors.<BR>><BR>>
Cheers!<BR>><BR>> Bob<BR>> --- Joseph Lukasiewicz
<JLUKASIEWICZ@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<BR>> ><BR>> > Hi,<BR>>
><BR>> > I've been poking around and managed to scare up some
resources that I<BR>think<BR>> > could assist me (us) in getting the
Alpha 2100 up and running.<BR>> ><BR>> > It seems the controller
card for the Raid is a MYLEX DAC960... I have<BR>some<BR>> > info on
it including what I believe to be drivers and possible<BR>> >
"instructions"...<BR>> ><BR>> > Rather than just plop everything
in the forum, I was wondering how to<BR>> > proceed? I think the
kernel will need to be rebuilt, or the drivers<BR>> > recompiled, or
the "recover" kernal made to some how recognize the<BR>drivers...<BR>>
><BR>> > A! s you can tell, were starting to get a little beyond my
level on<BR>this...Any<BR>> > ideas?<BR>> ><BR>> > Joe
Lukasiewicz<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> >
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