SPARC IDE support

[George Toft]

I'm curious about getting that IDE CD-ROM to boot.  Can it?

George


alandd@mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> I have found the answer to my own question, in case anyone is interested.
> 
> The Ultra line of Sun SPARC workstations report an IDE controller chip as "CMD Technology Inc PCI0646 (rev 07)"
> 
> Please ignore this trivia if you don't care.  :^)
> 
> Alan
> 
> plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us 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.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Alan
> 
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