On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:41:20 +0200 Eric Huiban <gro...@grompf.net> wrote:
> Le mar 30/03/10 11:23, "Duncan Patton a Campbell" campb...@neotext.ca a > C)crit: > > I've got a cf card running as a secondary drive on a Sparc Ultra 5 > > (Sparc64), but have not been able to get it to boot. The cf/ide plug I am > using has > > no master/slave/cs sets and a microprocessor on it as well, which leaves me > > suspicious of it because the CF interface is sposed to be a shrunken IDE. > > > > The sparc boot diags (probe-ide) show no device other than an ide hdd if it > > is attached. > > Also, I have experience that IDE disks are addressable after boot if the > > CS/MS/SL is set wrong (that is they can have mountable file systems) but > will still not > > be bootable themselves, which further leads me to believe the CF card 2 IDE > plug I have > > is useless for this. > > > > But I mebbe barking up the wrong tree altogether here and it is just not > > doable... > > Comments/ideas anyone? > > I successfully use "passive" CF2IDE adapter with Sparc U5/10. There is no > processor on theses cards : it is only a passive and mechanical adaptation > from > one connector to the other one. There is a few discret parts on the pcb but > they > only look like power regulator, pullups and LED driving components. > Muchas Gracias. This is what I suspected but didn't want to waste the money to no good effect. Dhu
