Subject: Re: Sun 3/60 problems
To: None <rmk@rmkhome.rmkhome.com>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 09/17/1996 22:30:53
> From: Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.rmkhome.com>
> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 14:56:17 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> I have a Sun 3/60 with 12 megs of memory, CG4 and no bwtw0, and
> NetBSD 1.1.  The hard disk is a Quantum TRB850S FAST SCSI-2.
> 
> During the nightly 2:00 AM fsck checks, etc., I get errors of this sort:
> 
> /netbsd: ncr5380_command: short transfer: wanted 10 got 6.
[...]
> When I attempt to start up X I get one of these errors and a dump into
> the debugger.  A trace shows that the kernel fell out of the ncr5380
> and straight into the debugger.

Thare were later binaries released just after 1.1 to fix this.
Those have since been removed to make room for 1.2 Beta.

In short, grab a later version from:
ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/arch/sun3/*

Gordon