Subject: Re: Bringing up a Sparc 0.00000 box on NetBSD-1.3.3 --- no tape
To: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/01/1999 11:49:08
It may be an Emulex MT-02, which I have strong doubts as to whether it
might function in NetBSD-1.3.3. 



On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Mar 1999, rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu wrote:
> >I have this ancient sparc dinosaur (old vme 12 slot crate with an early
> >sparc cpu in it).  My sunos tapes are full of hard errors, so I thought
> 
>   "Ancient sparc dinosaur"...hehe, if you ask me, there exist no sparcs which
> can be considered ancient or even moderately old.  Perhaps you should see the
> vax-11/750 in my storage room for a slight adjustment in perspective. ;)
> 
>   I have no explanation for your tape problem, but I would suggest trying to
> netboot your sun4 machine, if you have the network facilities to do it.  I've
> found it to be much easier.
> 
>   I know of *no* pre-sun4m sparcs that aren't supported by NetBSD/sparc, with
> the possible exception of the sun4/400...and I've run just about all of them,
> and can say that, assuming you have a 4/200 (just a guess) that it'll run quite
> nicely.
> 
>                               -Dave McGuire
>