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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:24:24PM -0800, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: |
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> 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 |
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> > suppose c is the floppy?) |
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> > And, instead of 'show-disks' you can use 'show-devs' and see everything. |
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> > Then you will see what's on your external card if the system can see it. |
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> > (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 |
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> Sun/Apple gear and therefore does not have OBP firmware on it. Cards |
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> without such firmware cannot be used for booting. |
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The NetBSD/sparc64 FAQ has some information about booting from standard IDE |
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controllers: |
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http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc64/faq.html#pci-cards |
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Looks like it's worth a go - I haven't tried it myself though. |
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Francis |
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