ok, got the BETA installed on my Classic X.  excellent.  took some screwing
around, but i finally got it right.  so i'm going to try and save this failing
disk that i had noticed with the list's help. so:

# scsictl sd1 format
sd1(esp0:3:0): esp0: timed out [ecb 0xf03bc904 (flags 0x1, dleft 0, stat 0)], <state 2, nexus 0xf03bc904, phase(l 12, c 100, p 3), resid 0, msg(q 0,o 0) DMA active>
panic: esp0: invalid state: 5
syncing disks... sd1(esp0:3:0): esp0: timed out [ecb 0xf03bc904 (flags 0x143, dleft 0, stat 0)], <state 5, nexus 0xf03bc904, phase(l 16, c 6, p 7), resid 0, msg(q 20,o 0) > AGAIN
sd2(esp0:5:0): max sync rate 10.00MB/s
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 giving up
Frame pointer is at 0xf0261b20                     
Call traceback:               
  pc = 0xf01f6bf4  args = (0x419000e5, 0x41900fe5, 0x0, 0xf0276800, 0xf0261c38, 0x419000e5, 0xf0261b88) fp = 0xf0261b88
  pc = 0xf0060c00  args = (0x100, 0x0, 0xf0298c00, 0x40, 0xf01c4c9c, 0x4, 0xf0261bf0) fp = 0xf0261bf0
  pc = 0xf00267c4  args = (0xf02249f8, 0x100, 0x5, 0x5, 0xffffffff, 0x28, 0xf0261c58) fp = 0xf0261c58
  pc = 0xf0008a60  args = (0xf03bc800, 0xf00257cc, 0xf002707c, 0xf03bc904, 0xffffffff, 0x3e8, 0xf0261cd0) fp = 0xf0261cd0
  pc = 0xf00271bc  args = (0x410000e2, 0xf03bc904, 0xf03bc904, 0x1, 0x0, 0x0, 0xf0261d80) fp = 0xf0261d80
  pc = 0xf0049b54  args = (0xf03bc904, 0x414000e3, 0x1, 0xf002707c, 0xf03e10a8, 0x1, 0xf0261e10) fp = 0xf0261e10
  pc = 0xf00499c8  args = (0xf0296800, 0xf026edc0, 0xf0dd0000, 0xf0296800, 0xc209, 0x2710, 0xf0261e78) fp = 0xf0261e78
  pc = 0xf01b9984  args = (0xf0261fb0, 0xfe000000, 0x809c4000, 0x2, 0xffff, 0xf01dd96c, 0xf0261ee0) fp = 0xf0261ee0
  pc = 0xf0008a60  args = (0xf0261fb0, 0xf01b98dc, 0x3ade4bdc, 0xb0519, 0x899, 0x0, 0xf0261f50) fp = 0xf0261f50
  pc = 0xf0058abc  args = (0x0, 0x0, 0xf021e83c, 0x0, 0xffffffff, 0x0, 0xf2ecaa40) fp = 0xf2ecaa40
                  
dumping to dev 7,17 offset 411183
dump succeeded                   
sd0(esp0:1:0): max sync rate 10.00MB/s
rebooting                             
         
Resetting ... 

SPARCclassic, No Keyboard
ROM Rev. 2.12, 32 MB memory installed, Serial #3277864.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:1d:96:29, Host ID: 80320428.


Initializing Memory ~|
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ok 

uhm, say what?  i tried this twice, same thing happens both times.  i haven't
reboot the machine yet, it's still at the ok prompt, but the last time this
happened to completely trashed /var to the point that the fsck -y i did of the
/var filesystem filled my 10000 line scrollback buffer with errors it found.
i'm glad i put /var on a seperate slice, otherwise i think this would trashed
my / filesystem, and that woulda sucked.

-brian