>> Tonight (while I should have been studying) I decied to see how far the
>> powerbook 550c kernal got through booting on my Performa 637. It got a lot
>> farther then I expected. In fact, it stopped at :
>>      ARGH!! No Boot Device???? Only support DISK device for Booting
>>      changine root device to a
>>      panic: cannot mount root
>>      stopped at    _Debugger+0x6: unlk a6
>>
>> Since I was booting with the kernal on a MacOS side it couldn't go any
>> farther then this. This leads me to wonder if NetBSD could run on the 630
>> series with a SCSI drive and serial console. My main doubt is that the
>> kernal displayed some info about ncrscsi not being configured. Is this the
>> same thing that is stopping other 040's from working?
>
>Basically.  The problem is not the ncrscsi driver, but the ncrscsi96
>driver which is not written, yet.  Most '040 machines (with the apparent
>exception of the PowerBooks) use the NCR53C96 chip for SCSI whereas the
>earlier macs use the NCR5380.
>
>> adb: Hardware Type (Cuda) not yet supported for this machine
>> adb: adb support is disabled
>
>You're also missing the ADB support (obviously).  Since the Cuda is
>supported by OSF/MK, now, John might be looking at getting Cuda support
>into his kernels...  If the Cuda in the {6,7,8}100 PowerMacs is the same
>as the one in the 68k boxes...

Question:  would it matter at all that the internal drive on a
performa/quadra 6xx series mac is an IDE drive and not a SCSI?  This may be
a stupid question, but i've got really little knowledge on the subject, as
to the fact the only mac i use now is a PB5300 (try installing BSD on it...
he he he)... getting ready to obtain a 68k based mac, but want to do my
homework on running BSD on it first (main goal for purchasing it).  Thanks.

-Spoon

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