Aha - thanks. I'll give that a shot and if it works add the
	SPARCclassic-X to the supported hardware under
	Ports/sparc/index.html with an appropriate note.

	Thanks again!

		David/absolute

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On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Curt Sampson wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> > 	Tried to boot 1.4 on a SPARCclassic-X. Its booting from a local
> > 	disk (once you set the boot-from to /iommu/dma/espdma/esp/... etc)
> >...
> > dma0 at sbus0 slot 4 offset 0x8800000: rev 0
> > esp0 at dma0 slot 4 offset 0x8400000data fault: pc=0xf0160d5c addr=0x0 sfsr=126<PERR=0,LVL=1,AT=1,FT=1,FAV,OW>
> >...
> > 	Anyone have any thoughts on how I might debug this?
> 
> I would suspect it may be because firmware isn't doing some
> initialisation that normally needs to be done on the SCSI controller.
> Why just turn your Classic X into a real Classic by tweaking the
> NVRAM bits mentioned in the NVRAM FAQ? (I've done this, and NetBSD
> runs fine on my ex-Classic-X.)
> 
> cjs
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