On 2/26/07, Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru> wrote:
> You can put three drives at the bottom of the case and one in the zip
> compartment (as I mentioned in another mail, apple advises against it,
> whatever).

And there's no power supply issues? They are all large PATA IDE
drives, and they get HOT. I'll have to check to see what it's rated
at.

> Use the ISO image trick, described in Matt's old mail:
>
>     http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2001/09/02/0002.html
>
> or my own mail on the subject:
>
>     http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2002/09/19/0001.html
>
>
> Point OFW to your boot disk, e.g.:
>
>     ok > setenv boot-device /pci/pci-bridge/scsi/disk:,\ofwboot.xcf
>
> adjust the part before the colon to point to your drive
>
> IDE disk connected to cmdide chip ("Ultra ATA" header on the
> mainboard) is "/pci/pci-bridge/pci-ata/ata-4/disk" and if recall
> correctly, there's an OFW alias "hd" for it, so you can abbreviate it
> to "hd:,\ofwboot.xcf"
>
> You can check ofw aliases with "devalias" ofw command.
>
> To break into ofw prompt hold Command-Option-O-F at startup.

Thanks. For now I've got it set to stop at the firmware prompt at boot time.

I'll let you all know how it goes.

Andy