Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Mar 2003 21:52:33 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 64GB NUMA-Q before pgcl |
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:37:13PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > Where is the IDE/ATA in the system? > Andre Hedrick > LAD Storage Consulting Group
The chipset includes some kind of IDE support but there's no way to physically connect to the built-in controller. In principle one could get a PCI IDE HBA and plug it in, but I am skeptical of the wisdom of blocking buses on large SMP systems. More modern revisions of ATA could prove useful, but this 5-year-old hunk of junk isn't going to get decked out with any useful number of devices before it gets melted down.
This thing is basically stripped of io on several levels, in no small part b/c arch/i386/ can't handle the number of interrupt sources etc., in part b/c PCI fixups I don't have docs (anymore) on how to do aren't being done, and in part because other ppl are supposed to be doing io. The only reason I've even got an aic7xxx is because qlogicisp.c is fscked beyond the ability of anyone's knowledge of the hardware to repair and it was blocking real programming tasks etc.
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