Re: Booting from CD-RW disc

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 01:53:34PM +0000, Sad Clouds wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 12:12 AM John Klos <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > There are things you can buy which are new. The most common would be an
> > IDE to CompactFlash adapter plus a CompactFlash card, as an example. I use
> > lots of SATA SSDs via SATA-IDE adapters. But your point is taken.
> 
> Hi John, thanks for the advice, I had no idea such adapters existed. I
> think I'll be getting one soon.

I'm running a SUN V100, which has only IDE interfaces for storage, with
three disks under NetBSD right now:
 - 1x 500 GB
 - 2x 1TB
All three are SATA spindles wired in via SATA-PATA adapters. Speed is nothing
to write home about (mostly due to the crappy IDE chipset), but it seems to
work. I booted from the 500 GB one for a while and recently it refused to
boot with either NetBSD or FreeBSD, but netbooting the machine and using
the spindles for storage still works fine.

Kind regards,
            Alex.
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