Subject: Re: 300MHz beige G3 questions
To: port-macppc <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Andy Ball <andy.ball@earthlink.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/06/2002 19:18:47
Hello Eric,
EDB> I have a few of these Apple SCSI boards made by ATTO.
Have any that you're not using? ;-)
EDB> I found that these boards need Apple's firmware
> update <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25176>
> to run NetBSD. There's also a method for installing
> ATTO's firmware on the card, but that makes the name
> of the device in OpenFirmware longer, long enough to
> cause problems under OF 1.0.5 (I'm using the card on
> a PowerMac 8500 since I couldn't get my OF 2.4 beige
> G3 to boot NetBSD). By the way, with the updated
> Apple firmware on this card it also works well under
> NetBSD/i386.
Good to know, thanks.
- Andy Ball.