Hardware compat with Fc8

Fri Jul 25 16:03:04 UTC 2008

Good information... and while we are close to the subject, I want to repeat a
query I made a while ago, in case it got missed somehow...

Does anyone know of an IDE paddle card that will work with the SRM on 
an AS4100
??? I use my 4100 to play with several loaded systems and think that 
somehow it
would be easier to have my main boot on CF disk mounted on a paddle 
card. I have
done this with my 164LX, and it works fine, but, the 164LX supports IDE (not
particularly fast which is why I only boot off of it) directly on the
motherboard, so, SRM needs to support that at least.

I am just wondering is:: Are there any vestiges of the IDE boot code in the
4100's SRM ??? It would have been nice and expedient to not remove the code
(and subsequently have to debug the changes) from all the SRM based machines,
even if DEC/Compaq was not planning on ever using IDE for anything in those
machines...

I am not adverse to doing the work myself, but, if anyone knows 
definitively, it
would be nice. A "No, it won't work at all... find another way..." works great
too... I just hate wasting time on fruitless efforts. I have little 
enough time
to play anymore...

(No more complaints now... I will be quiet on this from here on out...)...

I will throw a bit of information in here... The LK-13415 PATA control to SATA
drive adapter has shown some indications that it will work if you can't get a
SATA paddle card to behave. There are some minor glitches in some SATA drives
backwards compatibility support, so, I don't think I would be trying to use
them in any sort of ARRAY, but, having a drive to boot off and have some
offline storage should be doable. The adapter is about $9 ??? (If I am
remembering right) on eBay... The company name is:: NSIoutlet.com

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Quoting Jay Estabrook <Jay.Estabrook at hp.com>:

> Several months ago, a Debian fellow (Hi, Tom!) and I looked at SiL
> controllers - he a controller based on SiL chipset 3124, while mine
> was a SIIG card based on SiL 3512 chipset.
>
> As of his last status, 3124 was still failing using 2.6.25.4, while
> my 3512 appeared to be working OK with our 2.6.24.4 kernel.
>
> Note that I have not been using it at all since then, and only did
> some very minor testing, so of course, YMMV...
>
> Good luck.
>
> --Jay++
>
> bob smith wrote:
>> Thanks to Bert and Steven -
>> I will see if I can find a promise or one of the other sata cards 
>> and test this.
>>
>> modprobe -l | grep sata
>> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_qstor.ko
>> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_vsc.ko
>> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_via.ko
>> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_sis.ko
>> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_inic162x.ko
>> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_nv.ko
>> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_sil.ko
>> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_uli.ko
>> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_promise.ko
>> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_sx4.ko
>> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_sil24.ko
>> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_mv.ko
>> /lib/modules/2.6.23.10-97.fc8.1axp/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_svw.ko
>>
>>
>> Steven Moix wrote:
>>
>> I can't give you a definitive answer, but we know some things:
>>
>> - You can't boot from a SATA card because of the SRM, you'll always need
>> a disk to contain the boot files.
>> - A card which has kernel drivers should work, have a look
>> in /lib/modules/yourkernelversion/kernel/drivers/ata for compiled
>> drivers. You can also look at the /boot/config-yourkernel file under the
>> "SCSI Transports" section for compiled drivers. m means that they are
>> compild as modules, the .ko files.
>>
>> So let us know when you have tried :)
>>
>> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 09:53 -0400, bob smith wrote:
>>
>>
>> I would like to add some disk drives to a couple of alphas.
>> I am interested in adding SATA drives, the price is right, but am not
>> sure where to
>> look for compatible PCI card sata interfaces.
>> Has any one tried this? does it work with FC8? is there a list of
>> cmpatible cards?
>> thanks
>> bob
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