On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Todd Whitesel wrote:

> > OK, I got a bootable SCSI card, and the system is willing to boot from it,
> > but getting the disk set up so I can actually boot from it seems to be
> > rocket science, and I'm not grokking it.
> 
> I think you're getting burnt by the "SCSI firmware wants to use a phony
> geometry which doesn't match the one the drive tells NetBSD about" problem.

Wild guess... for some cards you need an MBR partition with the NetBSD
part starting on cylinder "1", leaving the whole first cylinder free.