Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

2013-01-14 Thread David Ricar
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

Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

2013-01-14 Thread Brian Szymanski
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

Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

2013-01-14 Thread David Ricar
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

Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

2013-01-14 Thread Brian Szymanski
On 01/14/2013 01:06 PM, David Ricar wrote: At silicon image website in support. There are both raid and nonraid versions of the bios. As I do not have a single windows around me, I did it under FreeDOS well. Ahh, I see them now. Thanks very much for your help! Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

2013-01-14 Thread Brian Szymanski
On 01/14/2013 01:06 PM, David Ricar wrote: At silicon image website in support. There are both raid and nonraid versions of the bios. As I do not have a single windows around me, I did it under FreeDOS well. This makes me wonder... Since I'm using mdadm, I should be able to use any

Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

2013-01-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:26:04PM -0500, Brian Szymanski wrote: This makes me wonder... Since I'm using mdadm, I should be able to use any voltage-compatible card, provided that I first plug the card in on a PC and configure it for straight-thru non-RAID access to all drives, right? I'd never

Re: good sata card for pci-x powermac?

2013-01-14 Thread Chris Reich
business relationship with either source. All my best, Chris Reich; Rochester, New York --- On Mon, 1/14/13, Brian Szymanski skibrian...@gmail.com wrote: From: Brian Szymanski skibrian...@gmail.com Subject: good sata card for pci-x powermac? To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, January 14

good sata card for pci-x powermac?

2013-01-13 Thread Brian Szymanski
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