Hi,

	I have a PowerCenter 166. Booting off the NetBSD 1.6 ISO, no NVRAM 
patches installed at present. boot command is boot scsi/@3:,OFWBOOT.XCF 
and it does the rest. Relevent Dmesg lines:

NetBSD 1.6 (GENERIC_MD) #0: Sun Sep 8 22:12:49 UTC 2002
  autobuild@tgm.daemon.org:/blahblahblah
total memory = 81920 KB
avil memory = 66388 KB
using 1049 buffers containing 4196 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: 604 (Revision 3.5), ID 0 (primary)
cpu0: HID0 8000c084<EMCP,ICE,DCE,SGE,BHT>
bandit0 at mainbus0
pci0 at bandit0 bus 0
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0
pchb0: Apple Computer Bandit Host-PCI Bridge (rev. 0x03)
ofb0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0: ATI Technologies Mach64 GX
ofb0: 640x480, 8bpp
wsdisplay0 at ifb0 kbdmux 1 : console (std, vt100 emulation)
wsmux1: connectiong to wsdisplay0
obio0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0: addr 0xf3000000
esp0 at obio0 offset 0x10000 irq 12: NCR53C94, 25MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at esp0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
mc0 at obio0 offset 0x11000: irq 14,2,3: addresss 00:a0:49:xx:xx:xx
zsc0 at ibio0 offset 0x13000: irq 15,16
zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0
zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1
awacs at obio0 offset 0x14000 not configured
swim3 at obio0 offset 0x15000 not configured
adb0 at obio0 offset 0x16000 irq 18: 1 targets
aed0 at adb0 addr 0: ADB Event device
akbd0 at adb0 addr 2: extended keyboard
wskbd0 at akbd0: console keyboard using wsdislplay0
nvram0 at obio0 offset 0x1d000
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST15230N, 0638> SCSI2 0/direct 
fixed
sd0: 4095 MB, 3992 cyl, 19 head, 110 sec, 612 bytes/sect x 8386733 sectors
sd0: sync (160.0ns offset 15), 8-bit (6.250MB/s) transfers
esp0: illegal command: 0xc2 (state 2, phase 3, prevphase 1)
esp0: SCSI bus reset
(repeats 4 more times) (my cdrom at ID 3 does not get probed)

sometimes I'll get the following in sysinst when I try and do the install

sd0(esp0:0:0:0): esp0 timed out [ecb 0x2ad000 (flags 0x1 dleft 2c, 
stat0)], <state 2, nexus 0x2ad000, phase(| 1, c 101, p 101), resid 2c 
msg(q 20, o 80) DMA active>
sd0(esp0:0:0:0): esp0 timed out [ecb 0x2ad000 (flags 0x41, dleft 2c, 
stat0)], state 2, nexus 0x2ad000, phase(| 1, c 101, p 101), resid 2c, 
msg(q 20, o 80) DMA active> AGAIN
esp0: SCSI bus reset

repeat that a lot,
sd0: could not mode sense (4/5); using fictitious geometry

repeat timeouts some more with dleft 8 instead of 2c
sd0(esp0:0:0:0): could not get size
repeat some more with dleft 200
more timeouts... etc.

hit the reset switch, go back to open firmware, can't boot.
OpenFirmware throws up some RESETing SCSI bus messages and then fails. 
Have to power cycle the machine to be able to boot again.


Sometimes I get sd0(esp0:0:0:1) time outs, but all the same general idea.


Some things that don't add up:

total memory = 81920 KB
avail memory = 66388 KB
using 1049 buffers containing 4196 KB of memory
	<- is that right? 80 to 66 MB of RAM?

Where is Platinum? The onboard video controller is nowhere to be found in 
the dmesg. Am I right in thinking that Platinum is just the Valkyrie chip 
that was in the old Quadra and Preformas attached to PCI instead of NuBus?

How come I can boot with the cdrom, and it never gets probed correctly by 
the kernel



	Any thoughts/flames/requests/gripes? I seem to remember having 
people report ESP problems to the list a while back with 7x00 series 
machines. Where do I go from here?


	Chris