On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 06:52:30PM -0400, Rafal Boni wrote:
> In message <200310082023.h98KNgYe018129@ultra.bl.org>, you write: 
> 
> -> I've got a Tatung Ultra10, UltraSparc-IIi 360Mhz, OpenBoot 3.10.7
> -> SME, but no onboard IDE.
> -> 
> -> I'm trying to get a Promise Ultra33 card working in the system, but when
> -> I try to run the nvramrc from the FAQ, I get an error:
> 
> Avoid this card, even if you can figure our the PROM magic to get it to
> boot (IIRC, whoever posted that later said that it was causing him all
> sorts of other problems).
> 
> Barring the PROM issues, both Matt Green and I have had very poor luck
> with these cards.  In my case panics under loads where I was using both
> channels -- I don't know if it was because of that or simply just a
> function of the load... the panic were due to mysterious accesses to
> areas of PCI space the driver shoul not have been touching... I never
> got much further with it than that and instead bought a Sil680-based
> card on Matt's suggestion.  That's been running a RAID1 with a disk
> on each channel just peachy.

I'm less concerned with RAID, I'm just wanting to use IDE disks instead
of SCSI.  I also plan on dual-booting, NetBSD and Solaris 9, so,
something that works under both OSes would be ideal.

> See the thread here (and tech-kern) a little while ago.

googling now

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org