Ultra 5 pci-ide controller
Sten Spans
sten at blinkenlights.nl
Thu Apr 15 13:31:00 PDT 2004
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Rob Evers wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to boot an ultra 5 with a pci-ide controller, not
> using the onboard cmd646 chipset ?
it is not possible to boot from a regular ide controller on an ultra5,
you could boot from cdrom/floppy.... or get a symbios 875 scsi card
and boot from that.
( this is not totally true, there are some hacks to fool openboot into
booting from another ide controller, but these are evil and won't work
properly in 99% of the cases anyway. I leave googling for these hacks
up to you, you have been warned :)
--
Sten Spans
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen - Anthem
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