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Keith M Wesolowski <wesolows@...>
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Francis Devereux <francis@...>
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Re: a question regarding using promise PDC 20262 ide card on Ultra 5 as boot device
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Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:24:28 +0000
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:24:24PM -0800, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:20:57PM +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote:
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> > What's c? ide@3/disk looks exactly right for the internal drive. (I
> > suppose c is the floppy?)
> > And, instead of 'show-disks' you can use 'show-devs' and see everything.
> > Then you will see what's on your external card if the system can see it.
> > (It should be another ide@?/disk, I would think.)
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> The problem here is that the add-on card was made for PCs not for
> Sun/Apple gear and therefore does not have OBP firmware on it. Cards
> without such firmware cannot be used for booting.
The NetBSD/sparc64 FAQ has some information about booting from standard IDE
controllers:
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc64/faq.html#pci-cards
Looks like it's worth a go - I haven't tried it myself though.
Francis
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