On Mon, 17 Jun 1996 10:20:42 +0200 (MET DST), Michael Neuffer
<neuffer@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de> said:
> Did you ever try to boot off a PCI SCSI controller with a BIOS/firmware
> for i86 in a MIPS or Alpha machine ?
Yes. Works fine.
> That works only with very few controllers/motherboard combinations.
Actually, the AlphaPCs have got i386 code emulation in software in the
BIOS for exactly this reason. SCSI cards, ethernet cards, S3 video
adapters... all manner of intel/PCI devices are in use on AlphaPCs
with no problems at all.
Cheers,
Stephen.
-- Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.