Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:02:19 +0100 (CET) From: Sten <sten@blinkenlights.nl> To: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> Cc: FreeBSD-SPARC <freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: sparc64 tinderbox failure Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44-Blink.0210312057060.5228-100000@thea.blinkenlights.nl> In-Reply-To: <20021031105219.A568-100000@topperwein.pennasoft.com>
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On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Chris BeHanna wrote: > It's only IDE at the disk drive side. At the PCI slot side, it > pretends to be SCSI. Theoretically, a driver for such a board that > worked in an Ultra 10 should also work in any modern box with a PCI > bus. Well in most cases drivers arent the issue, Most cards work with freebsd, its openboot that's hard. And you cant write drivers for openboot :). The whole issue is moot if you can accept booting from cdrom/floppy/ide. Which wont make the machine any slower in normal operation, but people owning alpha's/suns always seem to want to boot from their super duper leeto pci fc-al-scsi speed monster. And they'll usually browse ebay for 2 months straight to get the magic non sun/dec card that does work with their machine ( guilty as charged ). -- Sten Spans "What does one do with ones money, when there is no more empty rackspace ?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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