While shopping for shruberries, Gordon W. Ross pondered:
> 
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> I scrounged up a Sun3/50 with PROM revision 2.6 and have finally been
> able to reproduce the hang described above.  (I had an old 3/50 that
> Adam sent me, but had to displace something to make room for it...)
> 
> The hang occurs when the netif_sun.c module calls the PROM open
> routine.  The open would sometimes work, but often fail.  I tried
> changing the resources passed to the PROM open and found that the
> open routine in PROM version 2.6 appears to be sensitive to the
> location of the DVMA buffer supplied to it.  When I use a "high",
> page-aligned DVMA address, the PROM open routine works reliably.
> 
	I wonder whether that will also work with a 2.3 PROM like the one 
im my 3/50...

> 
> Now let's see if we can make SCSI work on the old 3/50...
> 
	I will be keeping my fingers crossed. =)

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