Subject: Re: NetBSD on SPARCserver 370 and 470
To: None <dbonnafo@laas.fr>
From: Gerald Richter <darklord@darkspace.neonshadow.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/04/2000 08:36:08
Heh. My 4/110 is a VME arch... :o)

David Bonnafous wrote:

> I don'y think so because in
> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc/hardware.html we can read :
>
> Network interfaces:
>         10 Mbps Intel 82586 ethernet, on-board (4/100 and 4/200, may
>         not be working properly on 4/400) and VME card (ie)
>
> and I use the same configuration (rarpd, bootparamd, ..., nfsd) for my
> SPARCstation 370 (and others) and it is OK.
>
> David.
>
> You wrote (in your message from Monday 4)
>  > Are these problems possibly in any way related to the issues I was having with my 4/110 (that I
>  > haven't messed with since I managed ta bum an IPC?) They look mighty similar, tho what I finally
>  > ended up with was NFS mounting failing...
>  >
>  > David Bonnafous wrote:
>  >
>  > > ***************************
>  > > *************** the 470 log
>  > > ***************************
>  > >
>  > > Sun SPARCsystem 400.
>  > > ROM Rev 3.0, 96MB memory installed, Serial #3574.
>  > > Ethernet address 8:0:20:9:70:C8, Host ID 24000DF6.
>  > >
>  > > [...]
>  > > root on ie0
>  > > nfs_boot: trying RARP (and RPC/bootparam)
>  > > ie0: TDR detected a short 0 clocks away
>  > > nfs_boot: client_addr=10.0.0.101 (RARP from 10.0.0.1)
>  > > ie0: DMA underrun
>  > > ie0: DMA underrun
>  > > ie0: DMA underrun
>  > > ie0: DMA underrun
>  > > ie0: DMA underrun
>  > > nfs_boot: timeout...
>  > > ie0: DMA underrun
>  > > nfs_boot: timeout...
>  > > ie0: DMA underrun