Hi,

> Finally (after figuring out that the 2.0.2 ISO wasn't bootable), I installed 
> NetBSD 2.1RC3 onto an 8600/200.  Even got OF to recognize the ATI Radeon 
> 7000.  The problem is this:  I have a Newer Technology G3/300 card, and since 
> I do plan to do some stuff in X11 on this machine, I decided to put it in. 
> When I do, OF no longer will boot from my sd@0:0 partition, though it will 
> boot from CD or floppy.  I've checked the RAM, and all of it is 60ns and 
> tests ok.  I pulled the cache card, per the manufacturer's FAQ, and that 
> doesn't affect anything.   I've adjusted the cache size to every ratio that 
> the software permits me to, and no go.  (The machine works fine in 9.1, btw) 
> Does this sound like a SCSI termination problem?  Very insidious bad RAM?  A 
> timeout problem?  (OF takes about 5 or 6 seconds to tell me that SD@0:0 can't 
> OPEN).  Any guesses?

I've seen this, too. It's a simple fix, although it might not be a fix 
that everyone likes. Plug the internal SCSI cable into the 5 MB/sec SCSI 
connector (the one farther from the edge of the motherboard) and change 
all of your OF references from scsi-int to scsi. My guess is that OF has 
timing issues with the synchronous bus.

I've had to do this on a number of machines, so on my last machine, I just 
found an ATTO card that I could boot from directly.

John Klos