On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:40:36PM -0400, Gabor Szilagyi wrote: > I am new to sparc, so this maybe completely silly. > > I am moving an existing server from Solaris 8 to GNU/Linux (Debian). As > I learned more (from this list and other sources) I realized how crappy > that machine is in terms of disk i/o (I paid big money for the machine > on the advise of a Sun/Solaris fan). > > The built in CMD64x chipset is really bad and slow. So I had this idea > (maybe stupid), that I simple put PCI card card which support the new > fast hdd-s. I happend to have a card with the Sil0680 chipset which well > supported on the X86 platform. > > I installed the card but it is not recognized at all (by the sparc64 > stock image at least). I'd like to know if anyone tried this and > succeded or failed. And first of all is it doable???
Not sure if the driver will work on sparc64, but you would ahve to compile a new kernel with this driver enabled to even try. Even if it does work in Linux, it wont work as a boot disk, since it wont have Sun firmware on it. You'd have to boot from disk on the internal IDE controller, or network boot a kernel image. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/
