On 13 Jul 2004 08:07:40 -0400, Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> wrote:
>   Is anyone else using the Sun supplied IDE-CDROMs in an Ultra5?  I have
> 
> I installed 1.6.2 in an Ultra5 via the stock cdrom, and it booted off
> it and installed fine.  Later I did a binary upgrade to netbsd-2-0 via
> booting from cd and installing.   I had no problems, and I'm pretty
> sure there were no such messages - i was using a serial console and
> would have seen them.
> 
> My Ultra5 appears unstable with netbsd-2-0, though - I set it building
> some stuff from pkgsrc and it wedged (it's remote now).
> I may try running NetBSD/sparc userland on it.
> 

Did it just hang, or did you hit the "sleep sleeps forever" bug?
I hit that recently on my Ultra 1, running -current. I haven't hit it
with 2.0_BETA on the same machine, though, and I've only hit it once
on my Ultra 5 (current) which has been running 24/7 for a long time
now.

-- 
Sean