wrote:I do not have an 8-bit ISA NIC here, so that option is out.
Thats no problem, you can put the 16-bit NIC in a 8-bit slot and the ROM will work.
wrote:The card with BIOS is a Seagate ST-01. Those are okay if you want to use hard drives (BIOS v3.3.1 or later required to run non seagate drives), but they don't have ASPI drivers so CD-ROM is not going to happen.
You can try a SCSI BIOS on an NIC with those other cards. It's worth a shot, but seems like a pain in the arse. I *think* the TI chips on those cards might be the same ones used on the future domain cards (even though they have VLSI chips). I think there was some of cross licensing agreement to produce those SCSI ICs. The ones on the Seagate cards are special though. They ordered a batch with some registers reversed which makes them incompatible with the TMC 850 drivers.
Here it is written that WangTek 30631-001 (CF61370FN) uses the same TI chip as the Seagate ST-01 (CF61891FN). Dont know if this is true, but the cards look very similar.
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?261 … er-things/page2
Maybe a possibility to get a cheap SCSI-card with boot-ROM.