> i have a ROM here but cannot test it at the moment; volunteers welcome!
> ;)
>
> (it's an image to be dd'ed to a floppy)

Not really.  It is a Solaris package in stream format.
It contains the following package:

   PKGINST:  ADPadp
      NAME:  Adaptec 294X(U)W/394X(U)W/4944(U)W SCSI Host Adapter Driver
  CATEGORY:  system
      ARCH:  UltraSparc
   VERSION:  v2.00
   BASEDIR:  /
    VENDOR:  Adaptec
    PSTAMP:  ultrasparc970703104704
    STATUS:  spooled
     FILES:     12 spooled pathnames
                 4 directories
                 1 executables
                 7 package information files
               454 blocks used (approx)

Apart from some installation handwaving, the only useful thing
included is:

# ls -l
total 464
-rwxr-xr-x   1 volker   people    232228 Jul  2  1997 adp*
# file adp
adp:            ELF 32-bit MSB relocatable SPARC Version 1

So this is a 32 bit Solaris driver for Adaptec SCSI cards.
It was made on July 2, 1997.  :-)


Sometimes, OEM drivers came on floppies without file systems.
Maybe that's why your file was supposed to be dd'ed to a floppy.


HTH -- Volker
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