They're cheap enough these days, aren't they! 

I'm running NetBSD/SPARC on a SparcStation II with 128 MB RAM.
Would you believe it only cost me $16.50 plus shipping at e-bay?

I like these older sparcs, they are well constructed.

By the way, is there any way to upgrade the processor in 
one of these older Sparc boxes?  I was able to add a 2nd processor
to a SPARC 10, but was wondering if there is any upgrade path
for the older boxes.   TIA.

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Jonathan Crawford wrote:

> 
> Nevermind, i answered my own question. It appears somewhere in the lifetime
> of this poor IPX it was robbed of it's FPU through replacement of the CPU.
> Oh well, ill just order another IPX.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Jonathan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-sparc-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-sparc-owner@netbsd.org]On
> Behalf Of Jonathan Crawford
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 7:45 PM
> To: port-sparc@netbsd.org
> Subject: NetBSD 1.5.2 on IPX boot problems...
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Im trying to install NetBSD 1.5.2 on my Sparc IPX via netboot. Everything
> goes fine, up until right after dma0 is loaded, then i get the error...
> ---
> 
> dma0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x400000data fault: pc=0xf01f3d48 addr=0x0
> ser=8080<WRITE,INVAL>
> panic: kernel fault
> halted
> 
> Program terminated
> 
> ---
> I also tried to install OpenBSD on it, and it loaded the kernel fine, but
> when it got down to install it started getting problems with floating point
> exceptions. This almost makes me think it is a problem with the hardware,
> except that it runs SunOS 4.1.3_U1 perfectly without a flaw.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
> 
> Boot device: /sbus/le@0,c00000   File and args:
> 13200
> >> NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.9
> >> (toor@proxima, Tue Aug 21 23:18:13 CST 2001)
> Booting netbsd
> Using BOOTPARAMS protocol: ip address: 10.10.10.8, hostname: sunbox
> root addr=10.10.10.7 path=/exports/sunbox/install/netbsd
> 2407018+115748+235192 [68+154160+112699]=0x2f29c0
> OBP version 2, revision 2.3 (plugin rev 2)
> Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
>     The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>     The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
> 
> NetBSD 1.5.2 (GENERIC) #0: Wed Aug 22 04:33:09 CST 2001
>     toor@proxima:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC
> total memory = 16260 KB
> avail memory = 12556 KB
> using 128 buffers containing 512 KB of memory
> bootpath: /sbus0/le@0,c00000
> mainbus0 (root): SUNW,Sun 4/50
> cpu0 at mainbus0: cache chip bug; trap page uncached: CY7C601 @ 40 MHz, no
> FPU
> cpu0: 64K byte write-through, 32 bytes/line, hw flush: cache enabled
> memreg0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf4000000
> clock0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf2000000: mk48t02 (eeprom)
> timer0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf3000000 ipl 10 delay constant 17
> auxreg0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf7400003
> zs0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf1000000 ipl 12 softpri 6
> zstty0 at zs0 channel 0 (console i/o)
> zstty1 at zs0 channel 1
> zs1 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf0000000 ipl 12 softpri 6
> kbd0 at zs1 channel 0
> ms0 at zs1 channel 1
> audioamd0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf7201000 ipl 13 softpri 4
> audio0 at audioamd0: full duplex
> sbus0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf8000000: clock = 20 MHz
> dma0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x400000data fault: pc=0xf01f9720 addr=0x0
> ser=8080<WRITE,INVAL>
> panic: kernel fault
> halted
> 
> 
> 
> 
>