[H-GEN] Alfa motherboards

[Gregory McGarry]

Craig Eldershaw wrote:
 
> Note previous comment about *E*IDE drives.  Also, since I hope no one
> on this list will be running NT (nor can afford OSF), then Linux/FreeBSD/
> NetBSD is the OS.  None of these fully support all pieces of HW yet.  Eg,
> *BSD does not support floppy contollers on at least some DEC Alpha mbs.
> I believe some video cards (esp the nice super-duper ones) still give
> problems in Linux.  w.r.t CDs, I don't know how many IDE devices it 
> supports (also relevant if you have multiple HDs).

FreeBSD only supports i386.  The floppies on TurboChannel Alphas are
not supported by NetBSD.  Although better sustainable throughtput than
PCI, you don't want TurboChannel Alphas.

Regards,
Greg
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