Subject: Re: sparc64 hardware
To: Tobias Nygren <tnn@NetBSD.org>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 09/03/2007 20:33:02
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).

Martin