On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, shsrms wrote:

> thanks to everyone for the help and suggestions!
> In booting from floppy (built from CD or from current earlier this
> month), I get there partially.
> What I get:
> If I leave the floppy in and powerup, I get thru the usual POTS stuff,
> and then get a dump (screens and screens of it).
> If I put the floppy in after POTS, and b dva0 - it hangs.
> If I put the floppy in after POTS and b dva0.0.0.0.1 I get the beginning
> of the usual NetBSD boot.  once I even got beyon the opening with the +.
> and +o thing.

Update the SRM & Arc firmware from:

ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/interim/udb/

I had the same problem and this solved it.  When you get the SCSI drive
working let us know how stable it is, I have been having probs with the
NCR driver/controller.

Cheers
Kev

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