From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199903100706.IAA00340@piglet.cpu.lu> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:06:16 +0100 (CET) From: Michel Lanners Reply-To: mlan@cpu.lu Subject: Promise Ultra33 in PowerMac? To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, hedrick@astro.dyer.vanderbilt.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email mlan@cpu.lu | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]