At 14:33 +0200 09/12/2002, Martijn van Buul wrote:
>Yes, i know. I'm asking a FAQ. My newly-acquired 7300 doesn't boot straight
>away into NetBSD, because the drive hasn't spun up. And I'm asking for
>hints how to fix it.
>
>Yes, I've read the FAQ. Yes, I know this question is there - alongside
>with an answer. The reason I still come bothering you is that the answer
>doesn't work.
>
>I tried patching the nvram settings. Unfortunately, this won't work, since
>OF rejects it, since the 'NVRAM string is too big'. Any suggestions? I'd like
>to have this critter boot unattended..

If you're handy with a soldering pencil, you could try replacing the 
8K X 8 SRAM chip which stores the NVRAM with a 32K X 8 SRAM chip. 
I'm not sure if that would solve the problem, because I don't know if 
Apple implemented the extra address line, but it would be nice to 
know whether it does or not.  The pin out on the chips is the same 
(except the NC pins vs. extra address pins).

Jeff Walther