On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:02:29AM -0700, Michael Wolfson wrote:
> At 12:24 PM -0400 7/10/01, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> 
> :)Would it kill us to be silent about Firewire support at least until
> :)we can actually see the drive under NetBSD?
> 
> That's why I haven't put it in any of the docs yet.  No one has reported to
> this mailing list that they can boot/use Firewire disks.  In fact, I
> haven't heard any reports of success booting or using USB disks.  Anyone?

Though we don't have native Firewire disk drivers yet, you may well be able
to use firewire drives with the "ofdisk" driver under NetBSD on your 
PowerMac.  As Nathan pointed out in some private email, it's likely that you
would have to *not* build any FireWire support into your kernel to get this
to work.

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  foolish and bewildered and astray: can any man?
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