I have not tried ide on my multia, but on my PC164, IDE
works perfectly.
bob


Jon Lindgren wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Guan Yang wrote:
> 
> > The guy who wrote http://www.multimania.com/multia uses Linux, and he
> > boots that weird operating system from an IDE drive in his Multia. He
> > confirmed this to me via email.
> >
> > But the NetBSD FAQs suggest that this is not possible; perhaps only
> > Linux can boot from IDE on Multia?
> 
> I believe this stems from the fact that NetBSD boots from the SRM, while
> Linux boots from the ARC.  IIRC, the ARC firmware understands how to talk
> to the IDE controller while the SRM doesn't.  Using the ARC for NetBSD
> requires that we write a new piece of abstraction code (the PAL, I think),
> which I believe to be rather difficult.  I think Linux either 1) has a
> custom one, or 2) uses the NT PAL code.
> 
> You might want to see if other people agree with this - alpha boot
> processes ain't my specialty ;-\
> 
> -Jon
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