>On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Steven Kasow wrote:
>
>>    I've netbooted a 400 MHz B&W G3 from a Quadra 650, and am having
>> plenty of fun. The only major catch is that the AIC 7890 chip in the
>> Adaptec 2940Ultra2 card that came with my system is "not yet
>> supported", according to the 'Supported Hardware' page on netbsd.org.
>> So I can't install on my external SCSI disk, and am instead running
>> diskless at the moment.
>>
>>    While I was looking around, I stumbled across a mention of
>> "OpenFirmware disks (ofdisk)". And since my G3 happily boots
>> from the internal SCSI disk, I presume that OF knows how to talk to
>> the card. Can I simply tweak the config file for a kernel and
>> magically use my drives through OF?
>
>Nope. You could boot a kernel off of it, but that kernel wouldn't know how
>to access the drive. We don't use the OF drivers once we've booted. :-(

Can't we compile the kernel for atapi-disk support?  On NetBSD i386 the ATA
driver attaches zip drives and other disks to sdX where X is the number of
the drive.