Hi,

This is not really a solution, but maybe a work around. Don't most
Performas have some kind of jumper on the motherboard that differentiates
it between its Performa incarnation and its non-Performa incarnation. You
find want to check around the hardware specs, etc. and see if there is
someway to IIvx-ify your P600.

Mark

On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Josh Hope wrote:

> There's been a recurrent problem, at least for me, for almost a year now.
> It seems to be an incompatability between NetBSD SBC kernels greater than
> 26 and my Performa 600.
> 
> I've brought this problem to the list's attention at least 5 times, and
> each time it is seemingly ignored.
> 
> Normal kernels (not SBC) greater than 26 *do* work on my machine, but they
> mess up my disks bad (because they aren't SBC).
> 
> Anyways, the newer SBC kernels all "stop booting" at this message:
> 
> sbc0 at obio0: options=1<PDMA>
> 
> The light on my EZ drive (which functions as my root partition) is steady
> on, but it's not accessing. I can leave it at this point for hours and
> hours, but it will never get any further...
> 
> I really wish someone could look into this. It seems to be a recurring
> problem for me, and it is so strange since it only happens with SBC
> kernels greather than 26...
> 
> I thank everyone for the priceless support and help they've offered me
> since I first started experimenting with NetBSD. Thanks! Now can we tackle
> this problem that just won't go away?
> 
> Also, is anyone else out there running NetBSD on a Performa 600? The
> IIvx's don't seem to be affected (I don't think) by this problem. Is it
> only my computer? What would cause behaviour so weird like this?
> 
> Thank you all again,
> 
> Josh Hope                                          root@unixgeek.ml.org
> UNIX System Administrator                        http://unixgeek.ml.org
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> 
> 

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