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by Michael-John Turner-2 :: Rate this Message:

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On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:08:28PM -0500, Micah R Ledbetter wrote:
> I don't know of any IDE controllers that OBP supports besides the ones
> that come built in to the motherboards to IDE Suns.

I've not tried this myself, but according to the NetBSD/sparc64 FAQ, it's
possible to get the PROM to boot from "standard" PCI IDE controllers:
http://www.netbsd.org/ports/sparc64/faq.html#pci-cards

-mj
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