I've run across this before-- there is a potential for OBP booting PCI IDE controllers, it seems (I've never tried):
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc64/2002/02/24/0000.html E On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 14:23:40 +0100, Dieter Jurzitza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Roland, > dear listmembers, > the only solution I can think of is to use a PCI-IDE-Controller as readily > suggested. The tradeoff is that you always have to boot from CDROM (or NET, > floppy may be too small) in this case. > I do so for my U60 because I use a AHA29160 for this purpose. With the U60, > both Promise U100 and Promise U133 work well. > If you need further help on how to create a bootable CDROM (if you plan to do > so), just let me know, however, you'll have to be patient until January, 10th > (when I am back in office and can access my systems). > Take care > > Dieter Jurzitza > > Am Sonntag, 2. Januar 2005 12:53 schrieb Jan Houstek: > > On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Admar Schoonen wrote: > > > As far as I know, the Ultra5 and Ultra10 onboard ide controllers don't > *** > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > | > \ > /\_/\ | > | ~x~ |/-----\ / > \ /- \_/ > ^^__ _ / _ ____ / > <°°__ \- \_/ | |/ | | > || || _| _| _| _| > > if you really want to see the pictures above - use some font > with constant spacing like courier! :-) > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > -- E