From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Oct 31 12: 2:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C2B337B401 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:02:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from thea.blinkenlights.nl (thea.blinkenlights.nl [62.58.162.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFEED43E42 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:02:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sten@blinkenlights.nl) Received: by thea.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix, from userid 101) id 880A639305; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:02:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thea.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84564D581; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:02:19 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:02:19 +0100 (CET) From: Sten To: Chris BeHanna Cc: FreeBSD-SPARC Subject: Re: sparc64 tinderbox failure In-Reply-To: <20021031105219.A568-100000@topperwein.pennasoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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