Subject: Re: anyone got a sun4 or sun4c class machine?
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
From: Henry Nelson <netb@yuba.kcn.ne.jp>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/18/2005 07:14:46
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:59:32AM -0500, Brad Spencer wrote:
> I might be able to help with the sun4c machine, let me know in private
> email what you need.  I can't be of help with the sun4 box as NetBSD has
> not worked on my 4/110 for quite some number of releases.

Are others having success with running NetBSD 1.6 or above on IPCs?  I
have four of these, and recently attempted to update 3 of them to 1.6.
I could not install on one of them, whereas 1.5 installed and ran for
about a year no problem.  One of the two I got installed simply stopped
running after about two weeks.  The other one was running, but the
hard disk (old, but low use) gradually became very noisy, and obviously
sick, so I shut it down.  I have one other IPC running 1.4.3 that has
been running for about 4 years straight, so I'm wondering if I should
just install 1.5 and leave it at that.

(BTW, no problem with 1.6 on two SS5s.)

henry nelson