Not necessarily. There's substantial implementation variation that makes even
simple boot methods problematic, particularly if there are bus bridges
involved.


On Tue, 28 May 2002, Erik E. Fair wrote:

> I hasten to point out that Adaptec made 2940's (and later models) for 
> PowerMacintosh, as well as for PC, and for the Macs, they had to do 
> an OpenBoot Firmware implementation (IEEE 1275) for their device. 
> Guess What? That's What Suns use, too (in fact, they invented it).
> 
> So, in principle, any PCI SCSI (IDE, whatever) card that is bootable 
> on any PCI PowerMac should work in a Sun, also. At least so far as 
> the PROMs are concerned. OS support is a separate matter.
> 
> 	Erik <fair@clock.org>
>