On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Jojo wrote:

> do i find out if the card is supported? Sonnet says that the card supports
> Open Firmware (otherwise i wouldnt have bought it).
> it is a dual channel IDE card with a master drive attached to each channel
> when i boot into open firmware it shows up as:

	Yes, this measn you can *boot* off the card. OpenFirmware support
doesn't mean that NetBSD knows how to use it once it's booted.

> Acard product 0x0007 (SCSI mass storage, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev 13
> function 0 not configured

	Because it isn't configured which == not supported yet

> i also tried booting from the install floppy to see if the install programm
> recognizes it, but it doesnt. it only shows my scsi disks.
> am i out of luck here? does netbsd have to support that specific device to
> work? when i boot from an old MacOS CD (its so old the card didnt even
> exist...) the drives work just fine. and it doesnt require driver under
> macos. 

	Install floppy doesn't have pciide support for this controller
either. Now from what I saw on Sonetts web site. This card *is* the
_exact_ same card that SIIG (www.siig.com) sells for Peecees for $30,
based on the Tripoint HPT 366 ATA/66 chip. If (I peeled off the SIIG
sticker and it says HPT/366)
you cross ref the two pictures on their web site, they're identical. That
being the case, a very little bit of work to make sure the code is Endian
happy with PPC, could mean that the driver from i386  could work with
1.5-current and possibly be backported to 1.5 release. What I wouldn't
give for a BIOS flasher so I could convert my $30 SIIG card into the $100+
Sonnet card, and have ATA/66 in my Mac. Though I'd be quite happy if I
could get my SIIG card to run on the PPC as well, even if I can't boot off
it.

	Chris