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Hi,

I recently got my hands on a "Tritec Workstation 20 (WS20L)" (label on
the case), aka "Tritec SS120" (inscription on the board) aka
"SPARCstation 10MP" (OpenBOOT).

I got it with two Ross Dual Hypersparc 40MHz mbus modules, 512mb ram,
 a floppy and two Antares SBus ConServer-ESP (without cables :/ ).
As I, as of now, do not have a cdrom, I went with the floppy installation.
If I am informed right, it's a sun4m machine and fdc appears in the
list for this arch.

After reading INSTALL.sparc and adjusting the OpenBOOT settings as I
were told, it was time for installation (NetBSD 2.0.2).
But, as soon as I want to change from floppy 1 to floppy 2, well,
see for yourself:

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SPARCstation 10MP (4 X RT625), No Keyboard
ROM Rev. 2.10, 512 MB memory installed, Serial #3807169.
Ethernet address 0:40:dc:0:17:c1, Host ID: 723a17c1.


Boot device: /obio/SUNW,fdtwo   File and args: netbsd                =20
>> NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.14
>> (jmc@faith.netbsd.org, Wed Mar 23 01:03:20 UTC 2005)
Booting netbsd
1465356+770772+168648=3D0x25b3c0
OBP version 3, revision 2.10 (plugin rev 2)
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.            =20
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993          =20
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
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NetBSD 2.0.2 (INSTALL) #0: Wed Mar 23 01:37:25 UTC 2005
        jmc@faith.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-2-RELEASE/sparc/
	200503220140Z-obj/home/build
s/ab/netbsd-2-0-2-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/INSTALL
total memory =3D 511 MB                                      =20
avail memory =3D 497 MB
bootpath: /obio0/SUNW,fdtwo@0,700000
mainbus0 (root): SUNW,SPARCstation-10: hostid 723a17c1
cpu0 at mainbus0: mid 8: RT620/625 @ 40 MHz, on-chip FPU
cpu0: 256K byte write-back, 64 bytes/line, sw flush: cache enabled
cpu at mainbus0 not configured                                   =20
cpu at mainbus0 not configured
cpu at mainbus0 not configured
obio0 at mainbus0            =20
clock0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x200000: mk48t08
timer0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x300000: delay constant 26
zs0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x100000 level 12 softpri 6  =20
zstty0 at zs0 channel 0 (console i/o)                =20
zstty1 at zs0 channel 1             =20
zs1 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x0 level 12 softpri 6
kbd0 at zs1 channel 0: baud rate 1200           =20
ms0 at zs1 channel 1: baud rate 1200=20
fdc0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x700000 level 11 softpri 4: chip 82077
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec                =20
auxreg0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x800000          =20
power0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0xa01000 level 2
iommu0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xe0000000: version 0x3/0x0, page-size 4096, rang=
e 64MB
sbus0 at iommu0: clock =3D 20 MHz                                          =
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dma0 at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x400000: DMA rev 2
esp0 at dma0 slot 15 offset 0x800000 level 4: ESP200, 40MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at esp0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target                       =20
ledma0 at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x400010: DMA rev 2
le0 at ledma0 slot 15 offset 0xc00000 level 6: address 00:40:dc:00:17:c1
le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers                             =20
SUNW,bpp at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x4800000 level 2 (ipl 3) not configured
SUNW,DBRIe at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x8010000 level 9 not configured     =20
dma1 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x200000: DMA rev 2                   =20
esp1 at dma1 slot 0 offset 0x400000 level 5: ESP200, 40MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus1 at esp1: 8 targets, 8 luns per target                      =20
ledma1 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x200010: DMA rev 2
le1 at ledma1 slot 0 offset 0x600000 level 7: address 00:40:dc:00:17:c1
le1: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers                            =20
SUNW,bpp at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0xc00000 level 3 not configured
dma2 at sbus0 slot 2 offset 0x200000: DMA rev 2               =20
esp2 at dma2 slot 2 offset 0x400000 level 5: ESP200, 40MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus2 at esp2: 8 targets, 8 luns per target                      =20
ledma2 at sbus0 slot 2 offset 0x200010: DMA rev 2
le2 at ledma2 slot 2 offset 0x600000 level 7: address 00:40:dc:00:17:c1
le2: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers                            =20
SUNW,bpp at sbus0 slot 2 offset 0xc00000 level 3 not configured
eccmemctl0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0x0: version 0x0/0x1            =20
md0: internal 688 KB image area                  =20
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
scsibus1: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
scsibus2: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <IBM, DGHS09Z, 0350> disk fixed
sd0: 8748 MB, 8152 cyl, 10 head, 219 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 17916240 sectors
sd0: sync (100.00ns offset 15), 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queuei=
ng
root on md0a dumps on md0b                                                 =
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WARNING: clock gained 129 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
root file system type: ffs                                =20
Welcome to the NetBSD/sparc microroot setup utility.

We've just completed the first stage of a two-stage procedure to load a
fully functional NetBSD installation environment on your machine.  In the
second stage which is to follow now, a set of additional installation
utilities must be load from your NetBSD/sparc installation medium.

This procedure supports one of the following media:

1) cdrom
2) tape
3) floppy

Installation medium to load the additional utilities from: 3

Ejecting floppy disk
fdcresult: overrun
fd0: timeout: state 10
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0a: hard error reading fsbn 0
fd0: controller status: state 13
Remove the boot disk from the floppy station and insert the second disk of
the floppy installation set into the disk drive.

The question below allows you to specify the device name of the floppy
drive.  Usually, the default device will do just fine.
Floppy device to load the installation utilities from [/dev/rfd0a]:=20
Extracting installation utilities...=20
fd0: timeout: state 10
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0a: hard error reading fsbn 0
fd0: controller status: state 13
gzip: can't read stdin: Invalid argument
tar: End of archive volume 1 reached
tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file
tar: Sorry, unable to determine archive format.
Ejecting floppy disk
fd0: timeout: state 20
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0a: hard error reading fsbn 0
fd0: controller status: state 13
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The floppy didn't even come out.
Searching the archives, I found posts from other people in
the past having similar troubles, but also from people who
did not have them.

A floppyset I found mentioned as working quite often was
NetBSD 1.5, so I gave that one a try.

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This procedure supports one of the following media:

1) cdrom
2) tape
3) floppy

Installation medium to load the additional utilities from: 3

Ejecting floppy disk
fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0
fd0: controller status: state 17 (st0 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,drv_chck> cyl 0)
Remove the boot disk from the floppy station and insert the second disk of=
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the floppy installation set into the disk drive.

The question below allows you to specify the device name of the floppy
drive.  Usually, the default device will do just fine.
Floppy device to load the installation utilities from [/dev/rfd0a]:=20
Extracting installation utilities...=20
fd0: timeout: state 16
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0a: hard error reading fsbn 0
fd0: controller status: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 10         =20
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0: timeout: state 13
fd0a: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-127
fd0: controller status: state 13       =20
tar: End of archive volume 1 reached

ATTENTION! tar archive volume change required.
Ready for archive volume: 1
Input archive name or "." to quit tar.
Archive name >=20
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The floppy gets indeed ejected with this disk, but due to this
harderror, the floppy refuses to read from the newly inserted disk.

Did I forget something (wouldn'T surprise me, it's my first sparc
after all), or something I could try, other than waiting for a
cd drive and install from it?

	Regards, Joerg

PS: please cc: me, as I am not yet subscribed to this list.

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