[Info-vax] Weird problem with non-booting AlphaServer 800.

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <nospam-614399.20294313012013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
<nospam at sture.ch> writes: 

> > Isn't this reserved to FibreChannel?  Might want to use another value.
> 
> I don't think so.  I was using and ALLOCLASS value of 1 long before 
> Fibrechannel came along.

True, but the reserved value was not backwards compatible.

> It could of course be part of someone's naming convention that you have 
> come across.  A properly thought out naming convention can be a handy 
> means of identifying which type of devices you are looking at.

I'm sure it is official.