On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 11:37:32PM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> I think I read somewhere that on these cheaper 64 bit Sun machines,
> like the Ultra 5 or Ultra 10, the onboard IDE controllers are sort of
> picky when connecting a hard drive.

Not realy. You can connect any IDE drive that supports non-ULTRA-DMA modes,
but performance is crap (no matter what drive you connect).

> Assuming this is the case, can I just plug in some supposedly
> supported PCI IDE adapter, hook up any drive I want to it, and then
> expect the firmware to know how to boot from it?

No. But if you keep the old/small disk around just for booting everything
should be fine.

Martin