Hi all,
I thought I had posted this note some time ago, but while looking this up for 
an email enquiry I found no evidence of this, but I did find Matthew's email 
from March.

The problem is that my patch will never work properly. The Sun driver doesn't 
play well with Promise cards and causes no end of trouble for other devices on 
the same (and maybe other) PCI bus. This was causing the siop driver to panic 
at boot time and it took me a long time to link the two. My guess is that the 
Sun driver encounters something it doesn't like and aborts the initialisation 
leaving the system in an inconsistent state.

I've removed the Promise card from my U10, although it should work fine if you 
don't want to boot from it. Solaris requires full support from OpenFirmware 
for disk controllers, but NetBSD just needs to know that the PCI card exists, 
which is the default situation. I may get around to making my U10 boot from 
the network or I might make it boot from a CompactFlash card (I've sort of, 
kind of run out of space inside my U10).

Cheers,
Lloyd