RE: (Sudo off topic)Simple cheap IDE intrerface for IBM 405

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Zimman
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: (Sudo off topic)Simple cheap IDE intrerface for IBM 405

 On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 03:17:24PM -0700, Conn Clark wrote:
I know that there is a cheap simple IDE interface for the MPC8xx
family of processors that is supported in the kernel, I was wondering
if > someone has come up with a similar one for the IBM 405? You have
PCI on the 405, so you have a huge variety of cheap IDE controllers
that will work. Look for some of the slightly older Promise or CMD
controllers from surplus suppliers, either should work fine.

Hi

For information, what is the cheap simple IDE interface for the MPC8xx
that you talk about ?

Thanks

Cedric

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Cedric Aubert wrote:

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Zimman
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: (Sudo off topic)Simple cheap IDE intrerface for IBM 405

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 03:17:24PM -0700, Conn Clark wrote:

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controllers from surplus suppliers, either should work fine.

Hi

For information, what is the cheap simple IDE interface for the MPC8xx
that you talk about ?

Thanks

Cedric

	There is a way to hook up an IDE interface to the PCMCIA interface of
the Motorola 8xx family of processors. The code for controling it is in
the sourcefile /drivers/ide/ide-m8xx.c . I think that there is more info
on it in the PPCBoot/U-Boot source code.

	Enough people are doing it that it made it in the kernel so there must
be documentation some where.


Hope this helps,


	Conn

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