re: SparcStation IPC: Data Access Exception

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

Izumi Tsutsui writes:
> martin@ wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 01:54:05AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> > > The SS20 is capable from booting this disk, why not my IPC? Does it have 
> > > further restriction for the root partition? NetBSD problems?
> > 
> > There was a recent discussion that newer bootblocks apparently do not work
> > with some older firmware versions - AFAIR this is not completely analyzed
> > yet.
> 
> There was PR port-sparc/42186, a firmware bug triggered by
> boot from raidframe support added after NetBSD 3.0.
> http://gnats.netbsd.org/42186

ah - i missed this recently.  that change is part of this /boot
i posted about just a moment ago:

-rwxrwxr-x  1 mrg  netbsd  64224 Nov 25 13:01 boot.388000-2005-06-21*

so perhaps this one will be the first failure.

> It worked arounded for my (recently died) SS1+, but not sure
> if there is any particular difference (around floppy device name)
> from SS2 or IPC etc.

i don't have any old sparc with actual disks, unfortunately.


.mrg.