On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:26:04PM -0500, Brian Szymanski wrote: > This makes me wonder... Since I'm using mdadm, I should be able to > use any voltage-compatible card, provided that I first plug the card > in on a PC and configure it for straight-thru non-RAID access to all > drives, right? I'd never need to change that, so In theory I should > be able to use it indefinitely thereafter on my ppc box. I have an > old 6-port PCI-X megaraid card which could fit the bill... Has > anyone used a setup like this? Any drawbacks, gotchas, or other > experiences with such a setup?
Some cards may need to boos a BIOS on a PC to work, others can be initialized by drivers from linux after booting. Depends how the card was designed to work. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130114202816.gd1...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca