On 09/28/2010 07:26 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote:
Well, even if you didn't mention it explicitly, it was listed in the
lspci dump since the beginning and nobody saw it until now. And one
may
also find it disturbing that a piece of software doesn't work with an
addon card on a machine that has free slots to add such cards ! But
bootstrapping an OS on non-original hardware modification is always a
bit hard.
Promise add-on sata controllers do not have proper OpenFirmware
support.
Therefore, they will never be able to boot an OpenFirmware machine.
There are very few add-on SATA controllers with proper OpenFirmware
support. Here are four I personally tried out:
Sonnet Tempo SATA PCI [1]
SeriTek/1V4 [2]
SeriTek/1eVE2+2 [3]
SeriTek/1S2 [4]
Other SeriTek cards explicitly described as "compatible with all
PCI-based Power PC Macintosh computers" with "completely self-
contained
booting functionality" should probably work equally well.
If you find other add-on sata controller(s) able to boot a PowerMac
machine, please let me know.
M
[1] http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo_serial_ata.html
[2] http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1v4/
[3] http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1ve2plus2/
[4] http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1s2/