Not that it probably needs to be said, but Manuel is the person 
responsible for the enormous improvements in the IDE subsystem on the
i386 platform, as well as any of the other systems that use IDE.

If there's anyone in NetBSD anywhere that understands IDE, I'd guess
it would be him.  

Just thought I'd express my awe for a minute.  I'll let you all get 
back to important stuff now....

Dave

Michael Wolfson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > Well, there are several issues:
> > - my CD drive doesn't like CD-RW (and I want to do devel on this machine, so
> >   change kernel quite often)
> 
> If it's that important, maybe you could put the CD-RW in that machine.
> 
> > - the floppy drive is dead
> > - the ethernet isn't supported by OFW (it's a epic100)
> 
> There has been talk of trying to netboot using a SUNW,hme.  I'm not
> sure if anyone tried it yet, but I suspect you've got all the hardware at
> your disposal.  The suspicion is that the Open Firmware driver on the hme
> will "just work" in a PowerMac.
> 
> > Maybe I can find a SCSI zip drive somewhere, though
> > But as you can see, my problem isn't that easy :)
> 
> True, but with a modicum of effort, I'm sure we can help you get set up.
> 
> Good luck,
>   -- MW