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Wow, imagine seeing this just after booting up my PWS running NT (and RH Linux...). NT 4, but one day I do want to try 2k.

My immediate question which isn't (I think) answered in the repo is how do you interface the NVMe? Can you put NVMe on PCI as opposed to PCIe? How?

In the meantime, I'll just add the desire to do this to the other Alpha-related intrusive thoughts I have, like getting that port of OpenSolaris/Illumos to Alpha to run...

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> My immediate question which isn't (I think) answered in the repo is how do you interface the NVMe? Can you put NVMe on PCI as opposed to PCIe? How?

PCI to PCIe adapter and then PCIe to M.2: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=78987 (PCIe has some level of backwards compatibility, although like that thread shows there are some limits as to what will work).

This does work on a compaq DS10. You can't boot directly from it but linux will see the nvme disk right away from a livecd.

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