Subject: Re: ...another freakin Multia user
To: Nathan Gelbard <gelbardn@hurrah.com>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/12/1998 11:52:07
Who are you? Dann Florek lately of Law && Order?

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Nathan Gelbard wrote:

> Yup, just bought my Multia from cpumicromart ;) me and the rest of the
> world.
> 
> I put 64mb of parity RAM in, and a 2gig IBM scsi disk.
> 
> I loaded the new SRM firmware from a floppy, no problem, no errors.
> 
> I booted the NetBSD/alpha install disk and am getting about 15 soft read 
> errors (a 4 line error message each time) in the process of loading the
> kernel. I've tried about 5 different disks, and different drives to write
> it with.
> 
> Do I have a bad floppy drive, or is somthing amis with the the drive
> settings? 
> 
> Is there a Sun OpenProm eqiv to 'probe-scsi'?

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