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Author: George Toft
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Subject: SPARC IDE support
I'm curious about getting that IDE CD-ROM to boot. Can it?

George


wrote:
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> I have found the answer to my own question, in case anyone is interested.
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> The Ultra line of Sun SPARC workstations report an IDE controller chip as "CMD Technology Inc PCI0646 (rev 07)"
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> Please ignore this trivia if you don't care. :^)
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> Alan
>
> wrote:
> > What IDE controller devices are supported on a SPARC system? I have seen SPARC based workstations that have IDE/ATA/ATAPI support but the actual IDE/ATA/ATAPI controller is not specified. Specifically I would like to use standard IDE CD-ROM and hard disk drives on a SPARC based system.
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> Any ideas?
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> Alan
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