Chris G. Demetriou writes:
 > > NetBSD-current should work with the ISA IDE... I don't know if SRM will
 > > boot from it, though.
 > 
 > Last I heard, SRM can't boot from IDE on any platform.

This is pure speculation, but I noticed that the new Personal
Workstation 500au & 433au are listed as shipping with an ATAPI CD-ROM
drive (http://www.workstation.digital.com/products/auseries/auspec.html)
>From this I assume that these machines might be able to use that
CD-ROM as boot device with the SRM console.

Drew