Hi again,

after tinkering around with an 8600 for so long, I finally got it
to install on a scsi disk, attached to an ncr* device.

With Mark's suggestion I also looked for an updated firmware
patch, which let me boot from it! hurray!

so I have the _BETA2 snapshot (how is this possible? my /usr/src
only says _BETA with nightly sups) and this machine is still
unseasy about writing to the disk. These disk are stock standard
- Apple proven - Seagate's. here is a panic anda trace.


sd0(ncr0:4:0): trying to transfer 20000400 bytes, mem addr = 0xe4b08000
sd0(ncr0:4:0): command: 2a (  0  0 38 fd 1a  0  0  2  0  0  0)
ncr0: unable to load xfer DMA map, error = 22
Data modified on freelist: word 0 of object 0xe03c4f80 size 52 previous type exec (0xdfadbeef != 0xdeadbeef)
panic: pool_get(vmmpepl): fre list modified: magic=feadbeef; page 0x73fe000; item addr 0x73fea20

Stopped in sup at	cpu_Debugger+0x10:	lwz r0, r1, 0x14,
db> trace
at panic+e8
at _pool_get+58c
at uvmspace_fork+314
at uvm_for+58
at fork1+660
at sys_fork+30
at trap+3c0
at ddblow+e0
at end+1401e38
at end+1400e48
at end+1400684
at end+13ffec8
at end+14030bc
at end+13ffa64
at end+13fe654
at end+13fc794
at end+13fc200
at end+4143e944
db> cont

any ideas? should I include current-users on this?

thanks,
  C.
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