Hello,

> another question: i need much space for a fileserver and i want to 
> RAID1 this. i'm thinking of two big IDE HDs and an additional (PCI 
> based) controller to get ATA/133 or so. IIRC all the supported devices 
> should run (read: if they do not connect/provide the boot device), but 
> are there IDE controllers out there which support booting from attached 
> HDs on U5/U10 machines?
Sort of. Somewhere in the sparc64 section on netbsd.org is a short article about how to make (some) PCI IDE cards work in Suns ( some OF hack was required ) but I have no idea about performance or which IDE controllers are supposed to work at all, I seem to remember some didn't.

have fun
Michael