Subject: Re: hardware question
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/02/2001 18:50:29
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:33:00PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:24:03AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have 2 hardware-related question:
> > - Has anyone tried to run 2 SCSI disks in a sparc IPC (remplacing the floppy
> >   with a HD) ?
> > - Will a sbus HME adapter works in a sparc IPC (running NetBSD) ?
> >   (I know it's a strange idea to put a 100Mbs adapter in such a machine,
> >    but I don't have any 10Mbs SBUS adapters left :)
> 
> Ok, the anser is: this doesn't work. A 1.5.1 kernel keep looping over
> the bwtwo when the hme adapter is plugged in (when I powered it down the
> kernel had attached over 1000 bwtwo :)

I got this in an SS1 when trying to add a 10BaseT/SCSI combo card.  Same card
works fine in an SS2 with the same kernel - I think it may be related to
OpenBoot revisions...

Regards,
Tim.