Subject: Re: ATA/66 Controllers
To: NetBSD/macppc <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Eddie Sato <esato@terra.com.br>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/23/2001 21:24:58
on 23/03/2001 18:49, Daniel Lamblin (daniell@slithy.toves.net) wrote:

> I bought a used sonnet tempo ata/66 card.  its not bad, but in the powermac
> 8500 it experiences problems, particularly when playing an audio stream from
> MP3 say, that cause sound to drop and click annoyingly, although data
> integrity isn't a problem.  The device is seen as a scsi device by macos.
> 
> I havn't tried NetBSD with it yet, mainly because I think I want to use a
> manual install process, which I havn't figured out yet, to preserve my apple
> partition map.  Is that even possible?
> 
> -Daniel

Do you know if there's any kind of issue of this card with ide cd-rom
drives? Have anyone been successful installing NetBSD using it? Until now,
I've seen comments only from use with hard disks, and nothing about using
cd-rom drives and the card.

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Eduardo SATO
esato@terra.com.br