-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On Jan 27, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Gert Doering wrote:
In port-sparc64, T.Volka wrote:Question is - what kind of HDD (size-wise) would be compatible?wd0 at atabus0 drive 0: <Maxtor 6Y160P0> wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressingwd0: 152 GB, 317632 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 320173056 sectorsthis is on NetBSD 3.1 on a ultra5.OTOH, the IDE controller on the U5/U10 is soooo slow that it might be morefun to get a IDE-to-CF adaptor, boot from a 1G CF card, and put a real hard disk on a SATA adapter...
Or, in case you have such equipment sitting around, stick a SymBIOS 53cXXX and a SCSI disk in there, the firmware ROM has support for most of them. I used an ASUS-badged 53x875 ( obviously with PC firmware ) in my U10 ages ago with no hassle whatsoever. That's bootable, beats the onboard IDE controller and you can still use whatever you want for your main data dump. Not sure if the ROM supports U2W-SCSI or U160 controllers but pretty much anything SymBIOS up to UW-SCSI should Just Work(tm)
have fun Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQEVAwUBS2CrjcpnzkX8Yg2nAQJ6swf/SkOmyDFwNOT4vh8mobcTgaT1ahdwRXA8 rVbG+MDy5vLa4dZDjLkzd6RTCHdYCV+zIRN+y0IoYrr0kNf4G9hYi19SzMZpxW6C s4/SxGrzLL7XqdRYMdKzebSq7Fedvk3JzQe+95QXYNBaUHvG9ohGKodDYYXroUG1 CRr4gGnZR2rwLnU+suQtHRqUZj6SFAgfxRmw/dTvNTWBNPMk7s6mkA5iZbkkeecB hiMjxO5wiiEwFkyRmRDnylEYaIug0KY080JDZ5nlLAGq5fLJgKwHnuNr2qhODviC XgZoMJjc/Haxkga1UAJKpIxcX0hmd85Dw2RF4Y89qjFP4RK3ZCIH7g== =Aa2F -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----