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Re: How to use 200 GB Disk on Ultra10?



I've run across this before-- there is a potential for OBP booting PCI
IDE controllers, it seems (I've never tried):

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc64/2002/02/24/0000.html

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On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 14:23:40 +0100, Dieter Jurzitza
<Dieter.Jurzitza@t-online.de> wrote:
> Dear Roland,
> dear listmembers,
> the only solution I can think of is to use a PCI-IDE-Controller as readily
> suggested. The tradeoff is that you always have to boot from CDROM (or NET,
> floppy may be too small) in this case.
> I do so for my U60 because I use a AHA29160 for this purpose. With the U60,
> both Promise U100 and Promise U133 work well.
> If you need further help on how to create a bootable CDROM (if you plan to do
> so), just let me know, however, you'll have to be patient until January, 10th
> (when I am back in office and can access my systems).
> Take care
> 
> Dieter Jurzitza
> 
> Am Sonntag, 2. Januar 2005 12:53 schrieb Jan Houstek:
> > On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Admar Schoonen wrote:
> > > As far as I know, the Ultra5 and Ultra10 onboard ide controllers don't
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