Re: Support for 800er machines?
Paul Weissmann <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hp700 |
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Chris Amthor [[email protected]] wrote: > Hi, > > I have a HP9000 sitting around that is labelled E55, nothing > else. uname -a gives: [...] > Since many times these H/W is mentioned together with 700er machines, > are these any similiar? And the most important: is this machine > covered by port-hp700 of NetBSD? The E-Class servers are technically quite close to the 712 workstations, ie most I/O-functionality is implemented via the same circuitry (LASI). Some functionality however was taken over from other, more obscure 800s servers and was implemented via devices attached to the HP-PB bus. There isn't any publically available documentation for these HP-PB devices up till now, so no drivers exist. This means that eg the SCSI controller is not supported (by any open-source OS), which renders a server quite useless. The ethernet and console should work though. - paul -- the mind cannot win over the matter, for once the mind is asked to do too much, it quickly shows itself to be matter as well.