Re: SparcStation IPC: Data Access Exception

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 26 November 2014 at 08:15, matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:
>
> Izumi Tsutsui writes:
>> martin@ wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 01:54:05AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>> > > The SS20 is capable from booting this disk, why not my IPC? Does it have
>> > > further restriction for the root partition? NetBSD problems?
>> >
>> > There was a recent discussion that newer bootblocks apparently do not work
>> > with some older firmware versions - AFAIR this is not completely analyzed
>> > yet.
>>
>> There was PR port-sparc/42186, a firmware bug triggered by
>> boot from raidframe support added after NetBSD 3.0.
>> http://gnats.netbsd.org/42186
>
> ah - i missed this recently.  that change is part of this /boot
> i posted about just a moment ago:
>
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 mrg  netbsd  64224 Nov 25 13:01 boot.388000-2005-06-21*
>
> so perhaps this one will be the first failure.
>
>> It worked arounded for my (recently died) SS1+, but not sure
>> if there is any particular difference (around floppy device name)
>> from SS2 or IPC etc.
>
> i don't have any old sparc with actual disks, unfortunately.

I suspect you could use something like:
http://shop.codesrc.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=50
:)