Re: sun4c (Was /etc/disktab on vax)

[Dan Oglesby <danno%serverunderground.com@localhost>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "..I'd rather be coding ASM!" <uridium%deviate.fi@localhost>
> To: "Alexander Carver" <agcarver%acarver.net@localhost>
> Cc: "Dan Oglesby" <danno%serverunderground.com@localhost>, "NetBSD/sparc 
> Discussion List" <port-sparc%netbsd.org@localhost>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 7:54:20 PM
> Subject: Re: sun4c (Was /etc/disktab on vax)
> 
> 
> > If there's a way to hex-dump the PROM on the working IPX (ideally
> > without
> > removing it) to duplicate it then that might work even better. I
> > know the one
> > PROM works fine, the other one is a couple tenths behind (2.7
> > versus 2.5 or
> > something like that).
> 
> Alex: Sounds like you guys are getting into the territory of needing
> your
> own prom burner. A cheap willem programmer, mine cost 51$ inc
> shipping and
> took a bit over four weeks to arrive by mule train from Bulgaria to
> Australia is going to do the business. They're fiddly till you get
> used to
> them but they do allow for burning a lot of different ROM's and also
> for
> ripping them.
> 

Yup.  I have one.  Just need to know where to get the IPX firmware, and what 
model chip I need to program.

--Danno