"Michael L. Hitch" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 07:09:06AM -0700, Roger Ivie wrote:
> >
> > > Oh, I know the bug was there and I know I got bzapped by it. What I 
> > > don't know is whether the NetBSD folks have fixed the bug yet.
> > It should be fixed. The dz driver is the suspicious object and it has
> > a "if (machine == VS4K9x) { don't probe}" in it now. What we need is
> > someone with a untouched machine who installs NetBSD 1.6 and confirms
> > that the bug is really gone. Dayly snapshoots are at:
> > ftp://releng.netbsd.org/
> 
>   It has been fixed.  I was working on installing NetBSD on a 4000/90, and
> was trying very hard to only boot fixed kernels.  There were no problems,
> until I managed to forget once, and now my 4000/90 has the modified flash
> memory bug.
> 
>   I started working on a program to try to fix it (but haven't had the
> time to work on it for serveral months now).  One problem is that if the
> program doesn't work right, I could easily end up with an erased flash
> memory, or a partially erased flash memory, or a partially programmed
> flash memory.  [As best I've been able to determine, the flash memory has
> to be total erased and rewritten with the new image.]
> 

I am currently running 1.6 on my VS4000/96A, but I still have the modified
flash bug because it ran 1.5.2 before that.

I would be _very_ interested in the fixing program. I am sure I am not the
only one. 

Regards,
Lieven
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