On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Michael wrote:

> Hello,
>
>> another question: i need much space for a fileserver and i want to
>> RAID1 this. i'm thinking of two big IDE HDs and an additional (PCI
>> based) controller to get ATA/133 or so. IIRC all the supported devices
>> should run (read: if they do not connect/provide the boot device), but
>> are there IDE controllers out there which support booting from attached
>> HDs on U5/U10 machines?
> Sort of. Somewhere in the sparc64 section on netbsd.org is a short article about how to make (some) PCI IDE cards work in Suns ( some OF hack was required ) but I have no idea about performance or which IDE controllers are supposed to work at all, I seem to remember some didn't.

 	Other option would be to put in a small IDE disk on the internal
 	controller to hold the bootblocks and kernel, and the use the
 	standard RAID1 autoconfig to get the root partition and everything
 	else on the two big disks on the fast controller.
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