In article <78a2305a040711063364941b34@mail.gmail.com>,
	Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com> writes:
> The reason I ask about changing the boot path is because my old
> SparcStation 1 can take an environment variable in the firmware to
> change the scsi path you want to boot.

That works with the ULTR5 or ULTRA10, too. Just put in a PCI SCSI
hostadapter with a Symbios Logic 53c875 chip on it, connect a SCSI
disk and it will boot of it. I've once heard a story about somebody
connecting the internal IDE disk of an ULTRA10 to such a using
hostadapter a SCSI IDE converter which boosted the disk performance
and reduced the CPU load.

> I was hoping there was some provision to do this with an IDE card but
> oh well...

You probably could if it had a chip that the OFW would support. But you
wouldn't want another crappy CMD 646.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/