Sil3114 SATAlink card in U5/U10
Gordon Zaft <[email protected]>
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Gang, I have several Sil3114 SATA/150 cards I'd like to use in several U5 and U10s I have.(they are Rosewill RC-222). I did some googling around on this and the answers I got were a little conflicting. It would appear I can use them as-is for additional storage but not for a boot drive. Of course I'd like to boot from the card if possible. I found this reference: http://netbsd.org/ports/sparc64/faq.html#pci-cards : Some standard PCI cards "just work" in NetBSD/sparc64, such as network cards, IDE cards, etc. However, for these cards to be recognised by the PROM, you need to update the SUNW,builtin-drivers FCode package to force the device into native PCI mode. Lloyd Parkes has provided the nvram commands to have a "standard" IDE controller recognised correctly by the PROM. dev /packages/SUNW,builtin-drivers : class018000 f 9 my-space + " config-b!" $call-parent class010100 ; device-end Two points -- 1) I have no idea how to use the info above -- I am assuming this is done at the OpenBoot prompt but not clear how/where to enter it and whether it is "sticky" or has to be done every time I power on the machine. and 2) I'm wondering if I need to use the Sil3114 "IDE" BIOS on the card in order to boot from it. thanks for any info you can give. -- Gordon Zaft [email protected] (preferred) [email protected]