Subject: Re: Micropolis 642Mb drive and NetBSD-1.1
To: None <mcr@latour.sandelman.ocunix.on.ca>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 04/29/1996 14:05:10
> Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 22:13:54 -0400
> From: Michael Richardson <mcr@latour.sandelman.ocunix.on.ca>
> 
>   I'm trying to get NetBSD 1.1 up on a friend's 3/60. He brought over
> a 642Mb drive. We do not seem to have the right combination of cabling
> (network drop is not where the serial port is...) to do a serial console.
>   It is a Micropolis 1624-07MZ1077802,hz2p according to the boot up
> messages from netbsd-rd.
>   This drive appears to want 6 byte commands. Was there ever patches
> done for handing this? 

The kernel in 1.1 patch 1 uses 6-byte commands.
The most recent installation set is found here:

  ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/arch/sun3/install-11-p1

Gordon