sounds like bad news for me...
ok i start peeling stickers off the card:

-on the card itself, the sticker which says "Tempo Ultra ATA66" it says
"Tempro Ultra ATA66" printed directly on the board/

-right next to the big chip it says "AEC-6260M Rev:1.3" directly on the
board.

-on the small chip to the left it says (had to peel a sticker here):
"Winbond
W29EE512P-70
201146701
019GGRA"

-on the big chip in the center it says:
"ACHIP
ATP860-A
MABC02400-1
0025"

-on the back of the card there is written (had to peel sticker here):
"HL1-VO 4 94V-0
0024"

is NetBSD 1.5-current much different than 1.5 release? i guess that would be
easy to update without having to reinstall from scratch.

from what i have seen on the SIIG website the cards could be identical, but
the picture they showed wasnt really accurate. and since i just started out
with NetBSD to actually learn UNIX i wouldnt know how to woork on that
driver for the endian thing. i dont plan to dual boot that machine, the only
thing is that i would work with RAIDframe. if you, chris, or anyone else is
willing to give it some work i will give whatever info i can give. i cant do
it myself, but i would love to see this card and the drive work in my
machine. in fact it would devastate my whole project since the machine will
be used as a backup and fileserver for my little network here and i cant
afford too buy SCSI drives since they are too expensive :(

-Jojo

> From: Chris Tribo <t1345@apache.dtcc.edu>
> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 00:51:01 -0500 (EST)
> To: Jojo <info@thrill-inc.com>
> Cc: port-macppc@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.5 an Sonnet PCI IDE Card?
> 
> 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
>