Hi,

    The OBP (OpenFirmware Boot Prom) only matters if you wanna boot from an
attached disk, right? I have a Promise Ultra66 IDE adapter for a PC plugged into
a 9600 running NetBSD. The disk seems to work fine with PCI IDE driver configured
(At least it works as well as any of my other disks).

                    kevin

Matthew Jacob wrote:

> The QLogic cards worked fairly well the last time I checked- but I'm not sure
> if there's a version with OBP that MAC's will like.
>
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Monroe Williams wrote:
>
> >
> > It appears that the Adaptec 29160 card I bought for my NetBSD-macppc server
> > Just Doesn't Work Reliably under NetBSD.  I've tried it in two different
> > machines, with several different cables and drives, and it always blows up.
> > (See my posts earlier this month to port-macppc for details.)  I even get
> > errors on boot when probing the bus when NOTHING is plugged into the card
> > (not even a cable).  Under MacOS 9 and X, everything seems to work fine.
> >
> > I've also tried a couple of earlier models of Adaptec SCSI cards (2940UW and
> > 2940U2W), and while it seems that earlier models are more reliable, I've had
> > intermittent failures with them all.
> >
> > I'm now looking for any data points related to _any_ fast/wide SCSI cards
> > being used with NetBSD.  Both success stories and failures are valuable.
> > The faster the better (I've got Ultra160 drives waiting to be used), but I'd
> > like to hear about anything down to Ultra-Wide.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > -- monroe
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Monroe Williams                                  monroe@criticalpath.com
> >
> >