At 8:58 AM -0500 4/23/01, Donald Lee wrote:

:)At 8:20 PM -0500 4/22/01, jimtnelson@earthlink.net wrote:
:)>Further, to my previous questions concerning booting NetBSD/macppc from
:)>an Adaptec 2940UW controll:
:)>
:)>Why can I not load the boot loader from the installation disk and boot
:)>to  the hard disk on a 2940UW controller?  The approach would be:
:)
:)the 2940UW has an "older" and a "newer" firmware.  The older firmware
:)AFAIK is v3.0, and does not contain OF.  It relies on the Apple
:)ROM to do its thing.  The newer version (4.x) is available on
:)Adaptec's web site and has OF.  It is a little dated now, though, so
:)it may not work well on newest machines to boot from the card.

Actually, he didn't say what model he was trying to use.  Adaptec has two
versions of the 4.x firmware.  One for "A/V" macs (7300 - 9600), and one
for everything else.  The "A/V" version does not have the "open" command,
which is necessary for NetBSD to boot.

I know this, since I've got a 2940UW in my 7300.  In this case, drives
attached to the adaptec card will not be usable until *after* the kernel
has booted and recognized the adaptec card.

Jim, you'll need to boot your bootloader *and* kernel off of the internal
SCSI busses, then have your root partition and usr on your adaptec SCSI bus.

Good luck,
  -- MW