Subject: Re: ATAPI / SCSI
To: Bruce Anderson <brucea@spacestar.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/18/1999 11:26:44
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 03:10:04AM -0600, Bruce Anderson wrote:
> You need a IDE card for you PPC
>
> Manuel Bouyer has the Promise Ultra/33 PCI board working with i386
> and it also works on alpha, so getting the board to work in PPC is do
> able.
> Retail price is about $ 28 each. (comes with a cable)
Yes, but the problem is that this board does funny things with the IDE
registers, and I've not been able to get a ATAPI device working with these
yet (the promise BIOS doesn't detect atapi devices either, and even hand on
some of them :(
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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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