Subject: Re: Anyone using a sun4 vme currently with NetBSD?
To: Michael Thompson <m_thompson@ids.net>
From: Gerald Richter <glassman1@neonshadow.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/28/2001 07:13:55
> During the first two phases of the net boot it does not get a single DMA
> underrun. It gets lots of DMA underruns when the kernel tries to mount the
> root directory.


Guess this means I need to bust out and rev my 4/110 back up for testing? :)

(sorry, no goodies on this one... just a plain ol' 4/110 3-slot VME with a

cgfour onboard)... Got a monitor I can hook it too and probably a

mouse/keyboard if I can find the right cable... (if not i'll just have to

source one off of ebay... or a serial term..)


It's got like 16mb ram as I haven't talked it into any more (something
about wanting parity stuff that I don't have.) No drives, I think I
burned the scsi bus trying some newer Maxtor scsi's on it (blew a fuse?
I haven't looked to close at it... just kinda stuffed it in a closet
when I picked up a IPC to play with...)

Now that's a board design idea - a 1 slot VME card that could have a
couple like 3.5" scsi HDDs mounted to it before it's inserted into the
slot...