Subject: Re: TLB miss on NetBSD 1.3
To: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.oscs.montana.edu>
From: Eric McWhorter <ericm@gauss.math.montana.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 03/27/1998 08:02:27
I have a 4mm HP (uses 90 meter tapes) I would gladly lend
semi-indefinitely to the cause (need to borrow it back every couple of
months).  I'll drop it off in Michael's office today.  I figure if I
post here that'll pressure Michael to actually use it. :-)

Michael L. Hitch writes:
 > On Mar 26,  2:37pm, Jonathan Stone wrote:
 > > 
 > > >today i put a TZ30 tape in my decstation 5000/133. trying something like 
 > > >
 > > >tar tvf /dev/rmt0 
 > > >
 > > >i get an "trap: TLB miss status 0xff10, cause 30000008, pc 801290f8, v 1000
 > > >.. in kernel mode" 
 > > >& kernel panic immediately.
 > ...
 > > I dont have any tapedrives at all. Michael Hitch has doen most of the
 > > SCSI work and I dont know if he uses tapes on pmaxes either.  So the
 > > tape support is not as robust as the rest of NetBSD/pmax.
 > 
 >   I don't have a tape drive easily available, and haven't tried one for
 > quite a while.
 > 
 > Michael
 > 
 > -- 
 > Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
 > Computer Consultant
 > Information Technology Center
 > Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA
 > 

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