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From: Michel Lanners <mlan@cpu.lu>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, hedrick@astro.dyer.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Promise Ultra33 in PowerMac?
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:06:16 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199903100706.IAA00340@piglet.cpu.lu> (raw)


Hi all,

I'm thinking about adding a Promise Ultra33 UDMA IDE controller to my
PowerMac. Those things, and especially the IDE disks, are so damned
cheap...

Anyway, does anybody have any idea whether such a beast would work with
the current ide driver stuff? I guess that PCI-wise, there should be no
problem. It's more a question of who initialises te board, as that may
be done by BIOS on-controller in an i386 machine, and has to be done by
the driver on a PowerPC box.

Using i386 boards in a PowerPC box under Linux can be done, as
demonstrated by my Compaq-OEM Matrox Millenium which works happily
(excpet a few quirks not related to its i386-ness).

Any thoughts (apart from 'drop that idea, buy SCSI' ;-) ?

Thanks

Michel

PS Andre, you got this mail because you're listed as maintainer of the
IDE stuff. If you know any other more apropriate oracle to answer this,
please forward...

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             reply	other threads:[~1999-03-10  7:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-03-10  7:06 Michel Lanners [this message]
1999-03-11  4:29 ` Promise Ultra33 in PowerMac? Andre M. Hedrick
1999-07-01  5:54   ` Michel Lanners
1999-07-01 15:07     ` Andre M. Hedrick

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