hi,

> Hi,
>
> Has anyone been able to pull a firmware image off of an open firmwared 
> adaptec
> AHA-2940 card?
>
> I recently acquired a Sun Ultra 5 and am trying to use an Adaptec 
> AHA-2940
> (power domain version, pulled out of an old beige G3 mac, with the 1mb 
> flash
> ram) with the Ultra 5.  I was clued into this mailing list from a 
> forum on
> Sun's website, and read in the archives of this mailing list over the 
> past
> month about people trying to get the firmware from an openfirmwared 
> card to
> flash into an AHA-2940.
>
> Has anyone been able to do this?
>
> I know others have tried to flash a PC AHA-2940 with the mac firmware 
> and
> haven't been able to get it to work with an ultrasparc, however I can 
> attest
> to an actual power domain AHA-2940 not working on an ultrasparc.  My
> ultrasparc recognizes it as a PCI device but not a scsi host adaptor.
>
> Thanks
> -Jeff

running NetBSD you should be able to use this HBA -- alas, you cannot 
use it as boot device.

i have 2940UWs (peecee versions) running in a Power Mac G4 (NetBSD) and 
an Ultra 10 (the latter one boots from a CF card as even the IDE 
controller i built in as a fast alternative to it's on board snail 
isn't OF ready)...

cheers,

timo