> > The Pmax distribution runs fine on those critters, although I have had
> > trouble with prom revisions later than 7.00.  Anyone offhand know why
> > the Pmax distribution would not run on the DS3100s with the flopppy
> > upgrades (7.02 or 7.03)?
> 
> My 3100 is probably one of the last built (it was obtained via a
> complete motherboard swap under DEC warranty in late 1992), and has
> 7.01 firmware.  It seems to run NetBSD just fine -- indeed, it was
> the machine the NetBSD/pmax port was first booted on.
> 
> The machine doesn't have its floppy currently installed, but the
> pmax floppy is just a SCSI device -- you can in fact connect it
> to anything and it acts like a very small removable SCSI disk --
> so I don't see what it'd change.  When originally purchased in 1990,
> in fact, the machine came with floppy disk, RZ23, RZ24, and TK50.

Intriguing.....  I tried to bring up NBSD141 on all of my different
2100/3100 machines.  It only was happy with the 7.00 eprom versions.
Each time I loaded it onto the 3100's with the floppies, it crashed
in the booting, if memory serves me correctly.  I went back to the
earliest roms in each line, and it worked fine.  I was netbooting
from a FreeBSD box.

Mine must be a little later than yours, or have rom upgrades, maybe.
We had a whole boatload of DS3100's at the university, here, and I
bought up a dozen or so surplus over the past year.

The latest rom I have is 7.03.  There was a DEC upgrade page in my
manuals that suggested that all it did was allow the scsi floppy
to work, and I was thinking it was dated around 1992, also.  I will
have to check that again to be sure.

Do you know of any changes in the 7.00, 7.01, 7.02, 7.03 level eproms
that affect netbooting?

Bob