Re: IDE controller for Sun Ultra 80??

From: DoN. Nichols (dnichols_at_d-and-d.com)
Date: 03/27/05

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    Date: 26 Mar 2005 21:29:08 -0500

    In article <4245d949@212.67.96.135>, Dave <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote:
    >Is it possible to fit an IDE controller card into an Ultra 80 so an IDE
    >based DVD writer could be attached? I'm not really bothered about disks,
    >only a DVD would be nice.
    >
    >I know you can get SCSI to IDE converters, but there are quite a few
    >reports of these not being too good, and causing problems.

            I'm using one (SCSI-IDE converter) with my Ultra-2, and having
    no problems (once I moved it to an external 50-pin SCSI bus. The
    problem with the internal one is that the bridge which I got is really a
    wide SCSI bus, but is narrowed down just to connect to the DVD-ROM
    drive. Since the card I got (made by "Acard" happened to be a wide SCSI
    -- the negotiation between the controller an the Acard on the drive
    failed. It negotiated wide, but didn't have an actual wide connection.
    The box which I came in is almost within reach, but I would have to
    disturb the cat in my lap to get it. IIRC, my 68-pin one is the 7222 (or
    7-something-22), and there is a 50-pin one, which I did not find at the
    web site where I ordered it.

    > I'm wondering
    >if any Sun hardware uses an IDE controller chip that I could find on a
    >PCI card, and so add IDE support?

            Well ... My Ultra-5 uses IDE -- but it is in service at the
    moment, so I can't look for what chip is on the main board. That one
    works quite well with a DVD burner (DVD+/-RW/+/-R by I/OMagick, based on
    what I can see on the box -- I picked it up at MicroCenter about a
    couple of weeks ago, after I got the Ultra-5 for $20.00.)

            To burn DVDs, you need the CD-RECORD package (which comes in
    recent versions of Solaris, and Solaris-10 has the latest version), plus
    the growisofs package, which comes as part of dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8.

            Enjoy,
                    DoN. 

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