On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 12:25:25PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
   > actually, a "skymaster" 2 port SATA card that i puchased last
   > year does NOT work in my G4/733 tower.  it causes the hardware
   > to fail POST or something -- i don't even get to the OFW prompt.
   > an adaptec card based on the same chipset -- satalink 3112 --
   > works just fine tho.
   
   unfortunably, some manufacturers don't implement the full PCI specs, but
   only what's needed to work in a PC (and I suspect such adapters would fail in
   some high-end PCs too). For example, some older promise adapters don't have
   all the address line wired, so don't work on systems which maps the DMA
   registers above 0x10000.


i meant to meantion that this card *does* work (well) in a sun ultra10.


.mrg.