On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Henry Nelson wrote:

>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.)


The early 1.6 releases exposed a bug in the sun4c MMU handling code, which
had always been there but just not triggered. This mat be the source of
your (non-disk related) problems.

AFAIK, 1.6.2 fixed this issue, as well as being fixed in 2.0.

See:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc/2003/07/18/0002.html


>
>henry nelson
>

Christian

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