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Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe



On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 07:01:26AM -0600, elijah wright wrote:
> 
> > BTW, the SATA drive you mentioned previously are only used with the G5
> > powermac, right ? None of the earlier models have Serial ATA support ?
> 
> right.  SATA was new on the g5 towers.  the g5 xServe machines are also
> now SATA - not that anyone i know personally has gotten their hands on
> one, of course.  [Apple owes us one as a warranty replacement for a G4
> that died - they couldn't find an appropriate G4 to ship us, so we get a
> G5 as soon as one becomes available.]

I was asking, because in this case, it is not needed to enable the PATA
promise driver on the power4 arch, and no need to enable the SATA
promise on the powerpc architecture, at least for now.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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