Please don't top post. It's a pain having to sort the order of messsages --- too much so that I am going to delete the cited cited stuff.
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 09:39:40AM +1000, Darren Goossens wrote: > I don't have a PCI USB card, though perhaps I should invest in one. > Nearly everything now is PCI-E, so something secondhand, I guess. Or use the CD. You can write a second CD with the required non-free firmware packages. That should work as well as providing them on USB memory stick, etc. The qlogic firmware is essential to drive the SCSI on many Alphas. Cheers, Michael.