On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Antonio Carlini wrote:

> Of the last two people posting that they had this problem,
> one is the one you quoted, and he worked on a site paying
> for DEC support and was able to get his machine upgraded
> with the latest and greatest. The other person had his problem
> reportedly fixed "off-list" IIRC.

  I clobbered a 4000/90 as well.  I was trying very hard to not boot an
old kernel while trying to install NetBSD.  I goofed once and now have
this problem.

  I think a program could be written to fix this, but it will be rather
risky to test it.  As best I can tell, the flash memory has to be
completely erased and rewritten.  If it doesn't work the first time,
the machine could end up useless.

  I started writing a little program to emulate rewriting the flash memory
to check out the timing.  I've been too busy lately to work on this, but I
hope to get back to it someday.


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Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
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Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA