From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from rover (rover.mkp.net [209.217.122.9]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 644E24898 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 07:04:54 -0700 (MST) To: "Duraid Madina" Cc: Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] 'foreign' PCI cards in an rp2430 From: "Martin K. Petersen" References: <000301c1c654$78ae35c0$022a17ac@simplex> Date: 08 Mar 2002 09:04:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <000301c1c654$78ae35c0$022a17ac@simplex> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: >>>>> "Duraid" == Duraid Madina writes: Duraid> In particular, I'm wondering about 3ware IDE RAID cards (these Duraid> work in (at least) alpha and x86 linux) I don't think there are high hopes for the 3ware card. At least not unless you preconfigure it on a PC. Alpha happens to work because its firmware includes a simple x86 simulator that executes the BIOS code on the card. That way you can configure your disk setup, etc. We don't have similar functionality on PA-RISC. So you are limited what can be done from within Linux. Unfortunately the 3ware management utility is 386 binary-only. I.e. you can't configure the card once you get Linux up and running either. -- Martin K. Petersen Cereal Bowl Engineer, Linuxcare, Inc. http://mkp.net/ SGI XFS, Linux/PA-RISC, GNOME