Excerpts from netbsd: 6-Jan-98 disk types... Brian Stark@siemens-psc. (1418*)

> Is "ST506" 
> something I want to use with these devices? 

Don't care: With new (1.3) bootblocks / new kernel
it doesn't matter what type you specify in the disklabel.
(Before, it was used to distinguish between IDE and SCSI
in boot device identification.)

best regards
Matthias