Subject: Re: sparc64 hardware
To: DataZap <az@datazap.net>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 09/03/2007 21:27:02
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 12:20:11PM -0700, DataZap wrote:
> This is something that I tried with a scsi to ide bridge. I was not able
> to get it to boot off that drive. Of course, I was using 1.6 at the time.
> What version of NetBSD are you using?

I used -current of various ages, on a Ultra 2. The scsi bus needed a few
resets before loading the bootblocks and would hang when the kernel tried
to access it, but I whacked the esp drivers error handling to force another
reset of the bus and then it worked.

Martin