Subject: Re: PowerMac 8600 with Sonnet ATA PCI Card
From: Nathan A. McQuillen (nm@steaky.dhs.org)
Date: Wed Dec 05 2001 - 13:40:17 MST
Good lord, another Nathan... :)
Just got my server back up after the Charter/@Home debacle, so I'm getting
all my list messages piecemeal. My apologies if this issue was put to bed
already.
I haven't used the Tempo under Linux but I know that I was terribly
disappointed that the card makes ATA drives show up as SCSI devices on the
MacOS. It's not software, I think the card firmware actually performs the
remapping. No clue why, unless there's a hard limit to the number of ATA
devices addressible on the MacOS or something. Didn't think there should
be but what do I know.
Anyway, unless you can alter its firmware (I think it's a customized
Promise card, if I recall correctly, and might be able to be flashed back
to Promise FW) the card will probably make an ATA device show up as SCSI.
I don't think it'd be a problem to use it as such under YDL, but I fear
that any low-level operations would probably fail, perhaps spectacularly.
I'd be curious if you get it to work, since I have one of those cards
laying around and it wouldn't be awful to stick a large drive in one of my
older 604 systems if I can get a success report.
Best of luck,
Yet Another Nathan
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Nathan A. Zobrist wrote:
> I have an 8600 with a Tempo ATA100 card and a Maxtor 60G drive attached. I
> don't have any problems using the Maxtor under OS 9 or X, but I want to
> change over to YDL as the primary OS on this machine. From what I have
> found in the archives, this should be supported with kernel 2.4.4 and up,
> but the drive does not show up as an option when partitioning, and when I
> try to set mount points, I get an error relating to drive sdb (shouldn't the
> drive show up as hda?) I don't have any problems with sda (the internal
> SCSI drive that came with the machine). I want to set my /home on this
> drive.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am a complete newbie, so
> please try to be detailed in any suggestions. :) Also, I only get digest so
> please reply to me directly.
>
> Thanks,
> Nate
>
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