On Tuesday 06 July 2010 09:51:32 Sevan / Venture37 wrote: > On 6 Jul 2010, at 02:26 PM, Brad <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My understanding is that this will work with cards that would attach > >> as pciide(4). > > > > If anything I think IDE controllers would work with this hack, but not > > necessarily SATA controllers. > > Ah ok, I understand, is fcode platform specific? > I have a silicon image sata controller for my g4 which has fcode firmware, > could that be used as a bootable device on sparc64? Unfortunately my blade > & g4 are on opposite sides of town so I can't test for myself to find out. > > Sevan
AFAIK that should work between both OpenFirmware (PowerPC) and OpenBoot (SPARC) systems and allow booting from the adapter. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
