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Hello,

On Dec 13, 2006, at 15:07, Claudio Leite wrote:

> * Michael Lorenz (macallan@NetBSD.org) wrote:
>>
>> Hmm, random errors usually mean hardware trouble. Did you try to 
>> reseat
>> all your memory modules, cables etc. ? OF is /very/ picky about SCSI
>> errors btw. and usually can't be bothered to give anything approaching
>> useful error messages ( everything is a DEFAULT CATCH or something 
>> like
>> that, no matter if the cause of the problem is a failed SCSI
>> transaction, RAM going bad, the loader crashing or whatever )
>>
>
> I haven't yet tried reseating anything as that would require major
> disassembly of the case. MacOS 9 and Linux both worked fine, though.

I don't know about Linux but MacOS is very forgiving about hardware 
trouble.

> I just tried zapping the PRAM and now I get a lot of
> "RESETing SCSI bus" before and during the boot process. Sometimes it'll
> appear thre or four times in a row, and I can hear the HD click each
> time. I plugged in an older HD I know works and it also displayed a lot
> of the reset messages.

You should definitely check your SCSI cable, termination etc.

> atabus1 at cmdideo0 channel 1
> ofb0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0: vendor 0x1002 product 0x4758
> trap: pid 0.1 (swapper): kernel PGM trap @ 0 (SRR1=0x81032)
> panic: trap
> Stopped in pid 0.1 (swapper) at netbsd:cpu_Debugger+0x10        lwz
> r0, r1, 0
> x14
> db>

Ouch. So something in ofb seems to be wrong - I'll have a look.

have fun
Michael
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