Hi,

From: CaptnZilog@aol.com
Subject: ATA drive on Q630
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 14:00:48 EST
Message-ID: <e1.110db9b5.27d147e5@aol.com>

CaptnZilog> I'm looking at getting a *large* drive for my Q630, to make my new development machine (currently using a IIsi, 2GB SCSI)...  and, of course, this happens to be an ATA based machine.

ATA drive is not supported in -current.

CaptnZilog> Staying away from ATA/100 drives, I found a Seagate Barracuda ATA/66 drive in the $125 range (damn, drives have gotten cheap!) which is 30GB.  What problems, other than the installer maybe glitching on large partitions, can I expect with this?  I'd presume from the age of the machine that the PROM code can't handle LBA mode, but could probably boot off of a small Mac/OS partition at the beginning of the drive...  
CaptnZilog> 
CaptnZilog> Suggestions?  Thoughts?  Comments?

If you are going to try, shall I put a test kernel and a test
install kernel within ATA support on somewhere?

Takeshi Shibagaki
ie9t-sbgk@asahi-net.or.jp