I got my Quadra 950 up and running 1.5ALPHA-20000826, with output going to
ZTerm on a Mac Classic, and all seems well so far.  

I'm curious about a couple of lines in the boot messages below,
particularly the "waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle..." stuff.  
What's going on there, something I can fix?  Also the savecore stuff near
the end:  is it safe to comment the savecore line from
/etc/default/rc.conf if I'm not experiencing crashes?

Thanks,

Phil Brodd

P.S.  When the Quadra boots, I notice it spews a small amount of garbage
to the serial terminal.  Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what that
information is?



IOP base: 0x91d000
OLD cs0: 0x82
OLD cs1: 0x86
OLD cs2: 0x7 (i = 1)
[ preserving 416381 bytes of netbsd a.out symbol table ]
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA2 (GENERIC) #53: Sat Aug 26 14:43:25 PDT 2000
    root2@c610:/usr/src/sys/arch/mac68k/compile/GENERIC
Apple Macintosh Quadra 950  (68040)
cpu: delay factor 1067
total memory = 40960 KB
avail memory = 34124 KB
using 537 buffers containing 2148 KB of memory
mrg: 'Quadra950 class ROMs' ROM glue, tracing off, debug off, silent traps
mrg: I/O map kludge for ROMs that use hardware addresses directly.
mainbus0 (root)
obio0 at mainbus0
esp0 at obio0 (quick): address 0x90e000: NCR53C96, 25MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at esp0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
esp1 at obio0 (quick): address 0x90e402: NCR53C96, 25MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus1 at esp1: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
adb0 at obio0
asc0 at obio0: Apple Sound Chip
sn0 at obio0: integrated Ethernet adapter
sn0: Ethernet address 08:00:07:74:d4:16
iwm0 at obio0: Apple GCR floppy disk controller
fd0 at iwm0 drive 0: (HD disk -- not supported)
fd1 at iwm0 drive 1: (HD disk -- not supported)
zsc0 at obio0 chip type 0
zsc0 channel 0: d_speed   9600 DCD clk 0 CTS clk 0
zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0
zsc0 channel 1: d_speed   9600 DCD clk 0 CTS clk 0
zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1 (console i/o)
nubus0 at mainbus0
fpu0 at mainbus0 (mc68040)
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <QUANTUM, FIREBALL1280S, 630G> SCSI2
  0/direct fixed
sd0: 1222 MB, 4135 cyl, 4 head, 151 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2503872 sectors
sd1 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <QUANTUM, FIREBALL1280S, 630G> SCSI2
  0/direct fixed
sd1: 1222 MB, 4135 cyl, 4 head, 151 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2503872 sectors
scsibus1: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
cd0 at scsibus1 target 2 lun 0: <SONY, CD-ROM CDU-8002, 1.8g> SCSI1
  5/cdrom removable
adb0 (direct, IOP): 0 targets
aed0 at adb0 addr 0: ADB Event device
boot device: sd0
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
PRAM time does not appear to have been read correctly.
PRAM: 0x83da4f7f, macos_boottime: 0x39b4deec.
root file system type: ffs
swapctl: adding /dev/sd1b as swap device at priority 0
Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks.
/dev/rsd0a: file system is clean; not checking
/dev/rsd1g: file system is clean; not checking
/dev/rsd0g: file system is clean; not checking
Setting tty flags.
Setting sysctl variables:
Starting network.
logger: not found
/etc/rc: WARNING: $hostname not set.
add net 127.0.0.0: gateway 127.0.0.1
Configuring network interfaces:.
add net fe80::: gateway ::1
add net fec0::: gateway ::1
add net ::ffff:0.0.0.0: gateway ::1
add net ::224.0.0.0: gateway ::1
add net ::127.0.0.0: gateway ::1
add net ::0.0.0.0: gateway ::1
add net ::255.0.0.0: gateway ::1
add net 2002:e000::: gateway ::1
add net 2002:7f00::: gateway ::1
add net 2002:0000::: gateway ::1
add net 2002:ff00::: gateway ::1
add net ::0.0.0.0: gateway ::1
IPv6 mode: host
Building databases...
Starting syslogd.
Checking for core dump...
savecore: /netbsd: kvm_dump_mkheader: Pread: Invalid argument
Sep  5 04:54:59  savecore: /netbsd: kvm_dump_mkheader: Pread: Invalid
argument
Mounting all filesystems...
Checking quotas: done.
Creating runtime link editor directory cache.
Clearing /tmp.
Updating motd.
starting local daemons:.
Starting inetd.
Starting cron.
Tue Sep  5 04:55:22 PDT 2000

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