I'd like to use some of my big sata drives on my g4. Looking at the various acrchitecture support pages, i386 is the only one that has an explicit listing of pci sata controllers, so I initially concluded that none were supported on macppc. Then I read the following at faq:
Almost all on-board SATA or IDE "RAID" controllers are this software-based style, and will typically work fine as a SATA or IDE controller using the standard IDE driver (pciide(4)), but are not going to work as a hardware RAID system on OpenBSD. (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#RAID) So I bought an Areca ARC-1120 card, not as a raid controller but just to utilize my sata drives. I see it recognized at boot (arc0), but I guess I was expecting to see pciide0, wd1, or sd0. I've gone round and round the manpages (sili, arc, bio, softraid, pciide) and the faq trying to figure things out, but I'm not getting it. Could someone kindly show me the obvious thing I'm not getting? Thanks in advance! -Scott
