> 
> The Performa 638 (and all the other Macs in that family) have an internal
> EIDE drive, which is generally a wonderful thing (i.e. I just bought a 3.2
> gig IBM EIDE drive for $280, try finding the equivalent SCSI drive for that
> much!)  The internal hard drive of the 638 etc. doesn't show up on the SCSI
> bus because its not on the SCSI bus, the only that is is you controller (ID
> 7).
> 
> The only option in this case is an external SCSI drive (at least until EIDE
> support is added to NetBSD).  The problems don't end there however: another
> snafu of the 638 is that it has a 68LC040 (no FPU), and NetBSD doesn't
> exactly support that yet either.  I don't think the internal video is
> supported either.

Minor point. EIDE is supported in NetBSD, just not in port-mac68k. That's
one of the nice things about a multi-platform OS. We can gain from the
experience gained on other ports. So we can learn from all of port-i386's
(and other ports') dealings with EIDE stuff.

Take care,

Bill