[SPARCbook] Sparcbook ADTX coverter fails to probe

[Michael Shalayeff]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 08:46:12PM -0800, chase rayfield wrote:
> So I have the ADTX converter that was sent to me.. I put a cheap chinese CF to IDE adapter in it with a 16Gb CF card I figured it would only see as far as 8Gb of course. And so far nothing. It doesn't even show up when I probe-scsi-all from the prom.
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> I did read somewhere that drives larger than 8Gb wouldn't work failing to transfer data but would still probe properly?
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> My external CD drive does show up at SCSI id 6,0 and I booted the OpenBSD 5.4 installer on in which of course couldn't find a drive to install to.
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> I believe I have the DIP settings matching the ones I see here http://www.sunder.net/sparcbook/#drive
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> Any ideas?

this is basically what i have figured out about those:
http://mickey.lucifier.net/adtx/

in a nutshell -- geometry is very important (:
cu
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