Subject: NetBSD on IBM PS/2 9595
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Carl Drougge <cd-netbsd@lundagatan.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/28/2001 14:38:30
I just tried booting the 20011111-1.5Y snapshot on my IBM PS/2 9595. I don't
remember the exact revisions of the hardware in it, but I think the planar
is the last from the xx95 series, and the complex is the first pentium-based
one (I think there was a second pentium-based one too).

Booting proved troublesome, saying just "Boot failed". Setting the floppy to
1.44MB mode solved this (and of course caused errors in POST..), which makes
me think the bootloader tried to read the floppy as 2.88MB. (DOS boots fine
from floppy, and IIRC so does linux (using whatever Debian 2.0 used on their
boot-floppy).)

Anyway, I didn't go much further than booting the install-system, since the
SCSI-controller isn't supported. But I can move about in the installation
menus at least. And I'll send dmesg and some comments:

> NetBSD 1.5Y (INSTALL_PS2) #0: Sat Nov 10 16:21:33 UTC 2001
>     root@celeron:/usr/obj/local1/src/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/INSTALL_PS2
> cpu0: Intel Pentium (P5) (586-class), 60.00 MHz
> cpu0: features 1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
> total memory = 65148 KB
> avail memory = 57336 KB
> using 839 buffers containing 3356 KB of memory
> RTC BIOS diagnostic error 20<config_unit>
> mainbus0 (root)
> mca0 at mainbus0
> mca0 slot 1: IBM Fast SCSI-2 Adapter (0x8efc) not configured

There it is, in all it's unsupported glory.. I have an earlier IBM MCA SCSI
controller somewhere (I last saw it before I moved, but I think I have a
good idea of where it is). Would sending this to someone help driver
development?

> ep0 at mca0 slot 4 irq 10: 3Com 3c529-TP Ethernet Adapter
> ep0: address 00:20:af:18:48:d4, 8KB byte-wide FIFO, 3:1 Rx:Tx split
> ep0: 10baseT, 10base5 (default 10base5)

I was unable to receive packets on this interface (sending worked though).
(Using the AUI-port, since I don't have a convinient place to put the other
end of a TP-cable.)

> mca0 slot 5: product 0x90ee not configured

This is just the gfx-card, nothing interesting.

> mca0 slot 7: 3Com 3C529 Ethernet Adapter (0x627c) not configured

I have no idea why it doesn't want to configure my other 3c529.
(This is the BNC-model)

> isa0 at mainbus0
> com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
> pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
> pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
> pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
> wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard
> vga0 at isa0 port 0x3b0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff
> wsdisplay0 at vga0: console (80x25, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0
> wsdisplay0: screen 1-3 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
> lpt0 at isa0 port 0x3bc-0x3bf irq 7
> fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
> fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
> biomask fb6d netmask ff6d ttymask ffef
> md0: internal 1440K image area
> boot device: fd0
> root on md0a dumps on md0b
> WARNING: NVRAM century is 19 but RTC year is 2001
> root file system type: ffs

Well, that's it..