> > About the NCR - does the firmware come from the chip manufacturer (ie.
> > is it possible to edit it)?
> 
> Some NCR/Symbios cards ship with firmware on-board.  Others rely on
> that being included with your motherboard's BIOS and hence get
> upgraded along with any flash upgrades you may make to same.
> 
Oh yeah, that's true, but we (the *BSD's) use our own firmware
(I think) as embedded in the ncr.c file.  The only time that
the BIOS firmware is used is during booting.

John