Subject: Re: PowerMac 8600 with Sonnet ATA PCI Card
From: Nathan A. Zobrist (zobie@citypride.net)
Date: Thu Dec 06 2001 - 10:59:45 MST
Nathan,
I found this bit of info too late to try, but I believe that it can be used
with kernel 2.4.4. I am using 2.4.10-12a, and it doesn't seem to work, but
who knows.
Anyway, in searching the list, I found that Dan Burcaw had the Tempo working
under the 2.4.4. It can be downloaded from:
ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/software/kernel
If you're interested in trying.
Let me know if you have success,
Nate
On 12/5/01 12:40 PM, "Nathan A. McQuillen" <nm@steaky.dhs.org> wrote:
> Good lord, another Nathan... :)
>
> Just got my server back up after the Charter/@Home debacle, so I'm getting
> all my list messages piecemeal. My apologies if this issue was put to bed
> already.
>
> I haven't used the Tempo under Linux but I know that I was terribly
> disappointed that the card makes ATA drives show up as SCSI devices on the
> MacOS. It's not software, I think the card firmware actually performs the
> remapping. No clue why, unless there's a hard limit to the number of ATA
> devices addressible on the MacOS or something. Didn't think there should
> be but what do I know.
>
> Anyway, unless you can alter its firmware (I think it's a customized
> Promise card, if I recall correctly, and might be able to be flashed back
> to Promise FW) the card will probably make an ATA device show up as SCSI.
> I don't think it'd be a problem to use it as such under YDL, but I fear
> that any low-level operations would probably fail, perhaps spectacularly.
> I'd be curious if you get it to work, since I have one of those cards
> laying around and it wouldn't be awful to stick a large drive in one of my
> older 604 systems if I can get a success report.
>
> Best of luck,
>
> Yet Another Nathan
>
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