i have a PWS 500au and 1.4.2 works on it.. it's been
running for over a month.. but i've yet to put some
load on it.

--- David Hopper <dhop@nwlink.com> wrote:
> Ditto.  To clarify to the list, I haven't heard of a
> single 500a or
> 500au (other Miata proc speeds notwithstanding) that
> *does* work with
> NetBSD.
> 
> Mine chokes after light usage, hard video errors.
> 
> dhop
> 
> "Michael L. Hitch" wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> > 
> > > The floppies loaded fine, the kernel came up,
> but after printing about
> > > 3/4th a page of standard NetBSD boot messages (I
> think the last thing
> > > probed was sia0, but that could be wrong), the
> "Copyright" message
> > > (which is now about 5-8 lines from the top at
> this point) gets the "C"
> > > overwritten with a funky character, and
> everything just stops.  Pressing
> > > return causes other screen characters to be
> overwritten within the top
> > > 5-8 lines, but nothing else happens.
> > >
> > > I see from the mailing list archives that the
> 500au works fine; anyone
> > > have any luck on the 600au?  The machine runs
> DU/Tru64/whatever it's
> > > called today/ just fine.
> > 
> >   I was unable to get NetBSD booted on a 500au -
> the graphics board in
> > the machine I had does not work with NetBSD.  I
> think when it gets to the
> > graphics board configuration, the screen gets
> wierd characters and nothing
> > appears to happen after that.
> > 
> >   I was going to try booting with a serial
> console, but never managed to
> > try that before the machines were put into
> production use.  [I can
> > probably try booting NetBSD on one of them again
> sometime though, so
> > perhaps I will try it with a serial console.]
> > 
> > --
> > Michael L. Hitch                       
> mhitch@montana.edu
> > Computer Consultant
> > Information Technology Center
> > Montana State University        Bozeman, MT    
> USA
> 
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