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/
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