Excellent, that's good to know. But where does one acquire a non-raid bios for the card though?
Thanks! Brian On Jan 14, 2013 12:12 PM, "David Ricar" <li...@dejf.org> wrote: > Hi, > sil3124 may need to be booted in a pc with a drive attached and flashed > with nonraid bios. At leats this is a must for systems like opensolaris > even on a pc platform. > Appart from that, this chipset is probably best at it's price level, we > use it in some servers 24/7 for years. > > Have a nice day! > David > > On 01/14/2013 04:15 AM, Brian Szymanski wrote: > >> Any recommendations for a good sata card for a pci-x powermac that works >> with debian? >> >> The ones I've looked at so far either: >> - have a raid "bios" which i assume is unaccessible on ppc and may or >> may not provide raw access to the disks by default. the best i can find >> on this front are sii3124 based cards which have some hideous java ui >> which proportedly works on linux (no doubt via X11, not the command line) >> - support osx, but there is no mention of other OS support, nor of what >> chipset the card uses (for example firmtek seritek 1v4) >> >> I won't need openfirmware/yaboot/etc. to see the thing at all. as my >> root volume will be attached to the onboard sata. >> >> Surely someone has looked in to this before? >> >> Or is my best bet really to go with some sort of external enclosure? >> >> Thanks in advance for any advice! >> Brian Szymanski >> >> >> > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > debian-powerpc-REQUEST@lists.**debian.org<debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/**50f4362d.9030...@dejf.org<http://lists.debian.org/50f4362d.9030...@dejf.org> > >
