[Gllug] RAID Controller on Linux/SPARC

[Fasih Rehman]

Hello All,

I managed to get my hands on a UltraSparc 10 from work, it's basically 
a bog standard Sun board in a regular desktop case (ATX). It is running 
Solaris at the moment but I'm going to put Debian on it. The thing is I 
want to put a large IDE (Soft) RAID in it.

So I planning on putting a Promise (or similar) controller into it. Now 
my question is will a standard PCI card designed for a PC work in a 
SPARC? I have google'd but only found references on the KMLs with 
regard to the integrated IDE bus nothing about supported PCI 
controllers. I remember encountering a problem in the past with a PC 
SCSI card, basically the cards are wired specially to deal with BIOS. 
Can anyone confirm this one way or the other ?

If this is not possible  can someone recommend an IDE Controller I can 
put into a SPARC? Oh and SCSI is not an affordable solution, I still 
don't like the prices in comparison.

Thanks As Always


Fasih


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