Le mar 30/03/10 11:23, "Duncan Patton a Campbell" campb...@neotext.ca a C)crit: > I've got a cf card running as a secondary drive on a Sparc Ultra 5 > (Sparc64), but have not been able to get it to boot. The cf/ide plug I am using has > no master/slave/cs sets and a microprocessor on it as well, which leaves me > suspicious of it because the CF interface is sposed to be a shrunken IDE. > > The sparc boot diags (probe-ide) show no device other than an ide hdd if it > is attached. > Also, I have experience that IDE disks are addressable after boot if the > CS/MS/SL is set wrong (that is they can have mountable file systems) but will still not > be bootable themselves, which further leads me to believe the CF card 2 IDE plug I have > is useless for this. > > But I mebbe barking up the wrong tree altogether here and it is just not > doable... > Comments/ideas anyone?
I successfully use "passive" CF2IDE adapter with Sparc U5/10. There is no processor on theses cards : it is only a passive and mechanical adaptation from one connector to the other one. There is a few discret parts on the pcb but they only look like power regulator, pullups and LED driving components.
