Subject: Re: disk toast?
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Ben Zeller <zeller@cif.rochester.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/29/1999 23:58:12
At 12:09 AM -0600 8/28/99, Ben Zeller wrote:
>At 3:25 PM -0400 8/27/99, Michael G. Schabert wrote:
>>
>>You should try an SBC kernel. It's very likely that you'd have to reinstall
>>after changing kernels, but it looks like your problem is the classic
>>ncr-versus-sbc thing...the fpu actually doesn't matter, as NetBSD runs fine
>>on '030s without fpu...it's just the LC040 that has problems.
>
>I tried the SBC kernel, both before and after reinstalled the base set, and
>the kernel panics during boot with a bus error trap.  I can email the
>registers if anyone is interested, but otherwise I am going to try Dan's
>suggestion and low level format the drive.

The drive was toast, if anyone was following with interest. ;)  Thanks to
Dan and Michael anyways though...

Ben