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From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
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Subject: Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement
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>From owner-freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org  Wed Jan 28 03:13:18 1998
>
>Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote in list.freebsd-sparc:
> > > > Yeah, NCR 875 boards are pretty cheap these days ($140).
> > >
> > >Can you boot an Ultra-5 from one of those?  You need a SCSI
> > >adapter with OpenBoot ROM support, otherwise you won't be
> > >able to boot the beast.  An el-cheapo NCR certainly won't do.
> > 
> > Not quite true. The glm hba driver and random otehr NCR boards
> > do work on the PCI SCSI cards. If you have problems, I can
> > also go yell at the Sun driver writer.
>
>I'm not talking about OS support here.  You absolutely have to
>have OpenBoot support in order to be able to boot.  If you plug
>in an NCR or Adaptec without OpenBoot PROM, then you cannot
>boot from it.
>
>Regards
>   Oliver Fromme

First of all, Sun isn't supporting the Adaptec driver (neither in prom nor
otherwise).

I'll reconfirm on my quark back at Sun when I next
go in, but that may not be entirely true about OBP on a card- I have
a couple NCR cards I'll try.