Subject: Re: sparc64 hardware
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: DataZap <az@datazap.net>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 09/03/2007 12:20:11
Hi,

Thank you for your email.

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:23:19PM +0200, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> > With NetBSD you can use third-party PCI add-in cards in your Sun gear;
> > for example Serial ATA cards. I have 5 modern SATA drives in my sparc64
> > server. The only caveat is that you still need a scsi disk to boot from.
>
> Or a scsi<->ide dongle and a ide<->flash (or something similar) - and a
> bit of luck. I had to do some minor code modifications to get it booting
> from a scsi<->ide adapter, but I guess that's because of the crappy adapter
> and "unusual" wiring I used (don't ask).

This is something that I tried with a scsi to ide bridge. I was not able
to get it to boot off that drive. Of course, I was using 1.6 at the time.
What version of NetBSD are you using?

Thanks,
Al