Subject: Re: ...another freakin Multia user
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Juergen Weiss <weiss@Uni-Mainz.DE>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/12/1998 21:22:25
Nathan Gelbard writes:
> Yup, just bought my Multia from cpumicromart ;) me and the rest of the
> world.
>
> I put 64mb of parity RAM in, and a 2gig IBM scsi disk.
>
> I loaded the new SRM firmware from a floppy, no problem, no errors.
>
> I booted the NetBSD/alpha install disk and am getting about 15 soft read
> errors (a 4 line error message each time) in the process of loading the
> kernel. I've tried about 5 different disks, and different drives to write
> it with.
>
> Do I have a bad floppy drive, or is somthing amis with the the drive
> settings?
Overrun/Underrun errors are standard on 166 MHz multias. Not a problem
of the drive. Happens while loading new firmware though.
Juergen Weiss
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