On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 07:39:22PM -0800, Jojo wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> i have a PowerTower Pro running NetBSD 1.5 and now i am trying to add a PCI
> IDE controller to it. the only controller available for the mac right now is
> the Sonnet Tempo Ultra66. now the question... what do i have to do, or how
> do i find out if the card is supported? Sonnet says that the card supports
> Open Firmware (otherwise i wouldnt have bought it).
> it is a dual channel IDE card with a master drive attached to each channel
> when i boot into open firmware it shows up as:
> 
> /bandit@F2000000
>     /ACARD,6260@D
>         /sd@0:0
> 
> then when i boot into NetBSD it shows up in the dmesg as:
> 
> Acard product 0x0007 (SCSI mass storage, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev 13
> function 0 not configured

No driver for this one. It's odd that this controllers pretends to be a
SCSI mass storage device.

> 
> when i try to see the disklabel for wd0 or wd1 (i know this might not be
> right but i thought i try) it says "disklabel: wd0c: device not configured"

Of course, without a driver for the adapter it can't use the disks here.

> 
> i also tried booting from the install floppy to see if the install programm
> recognizes it, but it doesnt. it only shows my scsi disks.
> am i out of luck here? does netbsd have to support that specific device to
> work? when i boot from an old MacOS CD (its so old the card didnt even
> exist...) the drives work just fine. and it doesnt require driver under
> macos. 

I suspect MacOS does I/O through the openfirmware in this case.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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