Subject: Re: bootable cdrom
To: None <sigsegv@rambler.ru>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 02/12/2005 23:13:51
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 10:10:18PM +0000, sigsegv@rambler.ru wrote:
> May be a dumb question, but:
> 
> If I pull out Promise Ultra100TX2/ATA PCI card from i386 machine and 
> stick it on sparc Ultra10 machine, what are the chances of it working? :-)

In the current states I think it won't work too well (maybe at Ultra/33
only). The BIOS does some setups that the driver doesn't, which makes these
adapters run at Ultra/33 only on all but i386 hosts.
I didn't find what the BIOS was doing to make it run at full speed yet.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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