The question:
We have an Alphastation 500/333 running Digital UNIX 4.0D. We have a RAID-5
array attached to it, which uses up two PCI slots. We would like to add the
DEGPA-SA gigabit ethernet adapter in the third slot. Has anyone had
experience adding the DEGPA-SA to Alpha workstations? Any gotchas we should
watch out for?
The answers:
I found the website for the DEGPA-SA at:
http://www.networks.digital.com/dr/npg/degpa-mn.html
It has a driver for Digital UNIX 4.0D. The driver docs say it has only been
tested on AlphaServer 800, 1200, 4100, and 8400.
I only got responses from two people.
<alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com> wrote:
For what it is worth, the V4.0E SPD doesn't list the
DEGPA as a supported device either. However, if you
can find a UNIX device driver for it, the group
providing the driver may be the one supporting it.
Jilleen Toth <tothjil_at_aquinas.edu> wrote:
Gigabit support is included with 4.0e unless you have the right 4.0d patch -
BL31?. We recently added a gigabit card to a 4100 with 4.0e. It took a
week to figure out how to make it work. The Compaq engineer initially put
it in PCI 0. It ended up in PCI 1. There was also a problem with our CISCO
switch.
The bottom line appears to be that even making the card work in a supported
configuration is difficult.
If anyone has more information, send it along and I'll write up a second
summary.
--Pat McCormick
Received on Tue Apr 06 1999 - 03:15:43 NZST