Subject: Re: Sun PCI periphs
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
From: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
List: current-users
Date: 03/31/1999 12:46:34
At 11:23 -0800 3/31/99, Dan Winship wrote:
>But is there a PCI SCSI card for the Mac with OpenBoot BIOS that is
>supported by NetBSD? I tried an Adaptec Power Domain 2930, and it
>identified itself as something random to the pci probe (AIC7855 I
>think) and then panicked (with a machine check) in ahc_reset.

I don't know specifically; I was just suggesting a good market in which to
go looking for this sort of device.

This more generally highlights a serious deficiency in our documentation:
not just systems, but peripherals: what works, what doesn't, on a platform
by platform basis? We need to construct this matrix and fill it out for
people who are buying systems to run NetBSD. I've had a thought along these
lines recently that I will flesh out in another message, later.

	Erik