Subject: Re: General sun4m problems (Re: Disk formatting and labelling under NetBSD/sparc?)
To: Alan Perry <Alan.Perry@Eng.Sun.COM>
From: Neil J. McRae <neil@domino.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/18/1996 13:10:16
On Tue, 16 Apr 1996 07:38:57 -0700
Alan.Perry@Eng.Sun.COM (Alan Perry) wrote:
> Problem 2.
> The system does not configure (and thus does not handle) the floppy drive.
> During boot, I get a message saying that the floppy (SUNW,fwtwo or whatever
> it is called) was not configured. I looked through the configuration and
> noted that the floppy controller could only be configured on "mainbus".
> I do not know what mainbus is, but the OBP and my slavio docs say that the
> fdc is on obio, so I modified things so that it would match when the OBP
> returned that the floppy is on obio. Now, when I try to use the floppy, I
> get a watchdog reset. Even worse, when I look at the code, it does not seem
> to muck with the appropriate fdc registers in a way that is consistent with
> what the slavio manual says.
>
> Any ideas?
I suspect that is one of those things that is being worked on. Remember
there is no official release of NetBSD/sparc sun4m and as such
many things are being worked upon. But if you want to help the gods will
answer your prayers. I certainly have been patient and have had many things
fixed by helping the developers out!
Regards,
Neil
--
Neil J. McRae.
NetBSD/sparc worshipper.
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