I have a Sun3/50 at home that I have running NetBSD 1.2 totally
   diskless,
   using a Linux box as an NFS server.  I have only had it up for about 4
   days
   now.  I have been noticing that it seems to run fine for about 3 hours
   (of
   actual use), then seg faults on everything leaving me with a plethora of
   core dumps.

   I suspect that it is a swap over NFS problem, but I really don't know.

   Has anyone else seen this behaviour, and if so, what can be done about
   it
   short of spending about $50 US for a funky Sun3 SCSI cable and getting
   an
   external SCSI drive for it?  I would like to keep expenditure to a
   minimum.


   Any help would be appreciated.
   Thanks
   Gavin


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I have [had, one donated its memory to a SS1] two 3/50 machines which have
always done this sort of thing when running diskless.  Add a disk drive
and all seems to be happy.

The problem looks a lot like the "everything core dumps" problem which was
happening a while back.

I don't know about "funky" cable.  I think I paid something like $6 US for
a SCSI cable [three row 50 thing to centronics 50 thing] and some bit more
for a encloser.  I think that the only thing one had to avoid was applying
terminator power from your SCSI devices [something about the terminator
power pin being shorted to ground].  Nothing appears to have smoked, yet.





Brad Spencer - brad@anduin.eldar.org   http://anduin.eldar.org