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List:       freebsd-sparc64
Subject:    Re: sparc64 tinderbox failure
From:       Sten <sten () blinkenlights ! nl>
Date:       2002-10-31 20:02:19
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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 ?"


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