[Gllug] RAID Controller on Linux/SPARC

[Darren]

I hope I'm not heading off in the wrong direction with this, but...

I looked at Simtec ATX ARM evaluation systems and because PC graphics cards 
have a video BIOS written in x86, the ARM processor cannot execute it without 
Simtecs "Special Sauce" - an x86 emulator in the motherboards bios.

Could the same be true for mainstream PCI cards which are built for the x86 PC 
market? In general do PCI boards have a BIOS which would prevent a U/Sparc 
from running it?

Regards,
Darren


On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 2:31 am, Fasih Rehman wrote:
> 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
>
>
> My last signature was better.
>
> fudo at fudonet.net
> http://fudonet.net


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