At 9:28 PM -0800 3/20/02, paul beard wrote:
>Kevin Diggs wrote:
>>Paul,
>>
>>     Every time I have seen these superfluous unit listings in a bus scan,
>>there has been some kind of problem on the bus. It could be a ... feature of
>>this particular scanner. ... Or a feature of the code that does the bus scan
>>in OF. Can you hook the scanner to a PC and see if it behaves in the same way
>>in the bus scan. Might also try a different cable. Keep in mind the macs use
>>a really shoddy external SCSI connector. So I'd use the best cable I can
>>find.
>
>
>Well, it looks like I'll have to give up on using the scanner with 
>this box if I want to use NetBSD. I could try linuxppc, but I doubt 
>I'll fare any better.
>
>As I learned today, the 9500/120 is the first OF box Apple released, 
>so I'd expect to find the most anomalies in it.
>
>Anyone got any good cheap PCI SCSI card recommendations so I can use 
>this with x86?

You could use most of the same PCI SCSI cards with port-macppc.  I 
think the Adaptec 2940UW is supposed to work well.  Certainly the Mac 
version of the card works fine under port-i386 for me.
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