Subject: Re: 2 HD with a powermac 4400/160
To: None <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/27/2001 00:13:14
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.
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..)
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp