On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 06:38:55PM -0400, John Klos wrote:
> 
> I have a 9600 on which I have a 4 gig disk on the motherboard SCSI for 
> booting the kernel and for a backup OS. I just custom compiled a kernel 
> with the root hardcoded to sd0a, since my PCI SCSI card is scsibus0. Any 
> old SCSI drive will do.

yeah, this is my ultimate plan, as it will ease the transition from IDE to SATA
since the OS won't like there and i won't need to worry about OF supported
SATA controller. ;)

> Also, if you test the OS on the motherboard SCSI before using the IDE, 
> you'll know if that has anything to do with your problems. I've seen 
> lockups with bad (as in not well supported) IDE cards before.

well, after reseating the ram and cpu, it seems to be stable now.  building a
new kernel as we speak.  pkgsrc is next.

> Aren't the Hauppauge video cards supported? I remeber Hauppauge - they 
> were one of the first companies with an i386 motherboard...

not really sure, as i've never tried to use a Sun that way before. :)

ok, so there is a chap who has the A/V for this thing supported for linux.  
who could i convince to work on getting it running in NetBSD?  ;)

-brian
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