[SPARCbook] Booting from a PCMCIA IDE disk

[Stuart Duncan]

Well, you're doing okay.  I'd be willing to swap my car for a 428MB 2.5"
SCSI.  Expect to pay thousands for one of them over here.  (If you even
manage to find one ;))

I thaught SB3's where IDE anyway? =/
Many older Apple Powerbooks where built with these converters, but
they're rare, too.  Tadpole have 2.5" SCSI drives, but they want $200USD
for 520Mb!
That'd probably be economical over there, but by the time I shipped one
of them back, it'd have set me back neerly a grand.

Do you know if Solaris has a ParIDE driver?  I've seen IDE devices
hanging off paralelle ports before, and paralelle devices hanging off
SCSI ports, too..  So there's promis there, of a cheap way to connect
IDE drives to SCSI.  =/

Cya,
Stuart

Colin Scott wrote:
> 
> Has anybody managed to install Solaris 2.6 to a PCMCIA
> disk and boot from it sucessfully?
> 
> I have a whole load of 2.5" disks and I want to use a
> PCMCIA IDE card to attach one of them to my SparcBook.
> Is this a workable setup?
> 
> I only have a 428MB SCSI internal disk so I don't have
> an IDE to SCSI converter. I would be willing to swap a
> 2GB 2.5" disk for an empty sled with an IDE to SCSI
> converter if anyone has a spare.
> 
> Colin
> 
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