On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:46:04AM +0200, Jarto Nieminen wrote:
> I've been reading the archives and about a year ago (January 2004) there 
> seems to have been much commotion over using an Adaptec 2940UW for the 
> PC which was flashed with Mac firmware on an Ultra5. I've now done this 
> but to no avail, the OBP of my Ultra5 doesn't detect the card as a SCSI 
> controller regardless.

What do you mean that it doesn't detect the card as a SCSI controller?
What does the OBP device tree show for this card?  

>    OBF seems to need support for the card in both the card itself to 
> talk to the firmware of the host machine and also drivers in the OBF to 
> talk back to the controller? Atleast this is what I've concluded from 
> numerous mailing lists. Sounds abit stupid, I know.

OBP will attempt to evaluate the FCode in the ROM on the card.  If the
ROM is not correct you may have problems. 

> I'm interested in firmware versions of those running either AHA2940UW/OF 
> or, if someone has really flashed their AHA2940UW and got it working. 
> I'm also, if there really are people who have flashed their AHA2940UWs, 
> interested on what Mac did they flash their cards. The Mac firmware 
> upgrade program recommends flashing on the same computer the card is 
> intended to be used in, I flashed with my friends UMAX Pulsar wich is a 
> Mac clone but seems to also have OBF. (albeit being old and not 
> supported officially by erig. MacOS 9.x or MacOS X)

How does the UMAX thingy treat the card?

Eduardo