Subject: Re: ...another freakin Multia user
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Juergen Weiss <weiss@Uni-Mainz.DE>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/12/1998 21:22:25
Nathan Gelbard writes:
 > Yup, just bought my Multia from cpumicromart ;) me and the rest of the
 > world.
 > 
 > I put 64mb of parity RAM in, and a 2gig IBM scsi disk.
 > 
 > I loaded the new SRM firmware from a floppy, no problem, no errors.
 > 
 > I booted the NetBSD/alpha install disk and am getting about 15 soft read 
 > errors (a 4 line error message each time) in the process of loading the
 > kernel. I've tried about 5 different disks, and different drives to write
 > it with.
 > 
 > Do I have a bad floppy drive, or is somthing amis with the the drive
 > settings? 

Overrun/Underrun errors are standard on 166 MHz multias. Not a problem
of the drive. Happens while loading new firmware though.

Juergen Weiss

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