Any chance the kernel you downloaded is corrupt, downloaded in text mode
instead of binary,
or un-tar-gzipped inproperly (i.e. on another platform with different line
endings, etc.) ?

    Once you're booted the PROM is probably not an issue... unless you're
making calls to the PROM
in a non-protected mode. Actually now that I think of it, I had problems
with a 240 of mine where
the CPU daughter card wasn't seated properly, the RAM tested good every
time, but would randomly
fail. I removed the CPU card and reinstalled it, been chugging along ever
since. It does have something
later than 5.1b on it though.

    Also, check your SCSI termination on the drive, on-drive
active-termination may not be trustable if
you are using a 68 <-> 50 pin adapter. And try running the self-tests
continually with the SCSI-bus
disconnected and connected to see if that shows any difference.


    Chris

> > i'm one of them too, ive run NetBSD on a 240 as well as a 260 with no
> > problem.
>
> What PROM version do you have? Is anbody successfully running on 5.1b
proms?
> Maybe it's the prom causing problems.
>
>