Subject: Re(2): ATA/66 Controllers
To: Eddie Sato <esato@terra.com.br>
From: Jojo <info@thrill-inc.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/23/2001 16:50:33
i have tried to get the Sonnet card to work with NetBSD, but in 1.5 it
wasnt supported

Jojo

>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.
>
>---
>
>Eduardo SATO
>esato@terra.com.br
>