On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 12:13:14AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> In article <20010726112625.A19420@antioche.lip6.fr>
> bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr writes:
> 
> > Unfortunably in seems that OFW can't boot from a slave IDE disk.
> > using ata/ata-disk@0:0 boots the primary master.
> > ata/ata-disk@1:0 also boots the primary master.
> > ata/ata-disk@2:0 seems to boot from CD which is is secondary master.
> 
> What does the Openfirmware say with the command "dev /" and "ls" ?
> If it does not show the slave drive, I guess it does not support it.

Yes, OFW doesn't show the slave drive, but doesn't show the secondary
master either (although I can boot from it)

> MacOS does (or did?) not support any slave devices on the IDE bus.
> 
> > Another possibility would be to put an external SCSI drive for MacOS on the
> > mesh controller. Has anyone tried booting this system from a SCSI drive ?
> 
> I tried booting NetBSD from a SCSI disk on mesh bus and it worked fine.
> (Mesh was very fragile so I had to adjust its terminators, though..)

OK, thanks !

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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