Subject: Re: Reading old sun CD on NetBSD 1.4.1 or later?
To: NetBSD Bob <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@mono.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/16/1999 15:57:58
	Hmm - SunOS CDs are in Sun UFS format IIRC. Does you get any
	panic message? (I'd definitely be trying this with the latest
	-current)

		David/absolute

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, NetBSD Bob wrote:

> I was thinking of making my MicroVAX 3100/20 act as my tftp boot server
> so I can bring up some older suntoyz on SunOS (don't laugh, cuz it is
> a SparcBook 2 laptop, and it only runs SunOS, period, AFIK).  I got
> everything set up and ready to go, then plopped in the CD, and no-readme-cdum.
> The cd (RRD42 or Apple Sony types) won't mount anything on NetBSD, yet work
> fine in Ultrix.  I have to assume it is something amiss on the NetBSD
> end, or my VAXdummyness.....(:+{{...  When the CD is read, it does some
> kind of a quick lockup of something then totally crashes into the prom
> monitor (machine comes up fine afterward and fscking itself).  I tried
> 1.4.1 1.4L and 1.4M kernels, all to no avail.  I tried mounting by
> ffs, ufs, cd9660, etc., all to no avail.  It just does not want to
> handle any types of cd.   The cd types I tried were plain ISO things,
> odd sunOS or Ultrix CD's, etc.  Anyone run into this kind of problem, or
> anyone know where to look to begin to fix such a problem?  It really
> would be nice to get NetBSD VAX to play with the RRD42, properly.
> Any insights are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob
>