Subject: Re: More quirks.
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/09/1997 12:01:43
> > /usr/mdec/binstall works, although I still can't boot from
> > this disk. The PROM probe-scsi prints 'Target 1' a newline, and then
> > hangs ... It's an IBM 94G2441 540MB drive. Could power problems
> > cause something like that? Any other ideas? The 207MB drive
> > works, but I'd like a little more space. I suppose I'll
> > have to try it in an external enclosure now.
> >
> > ...and that didn't work. Any other reasons the drive would
> > work fine but not be bootable?
>
> I'm not sure what you're saying. A disk that doesn't probe via probe-scsi
> "work[s] fine"? You certainly have to be able to see the disk from the
> PROM with no problems in order to boot from it or do anything else :-)
I have a ~500MB IBM drive with SGI firmware - might be the same
model - in an IPX which either hangs or clears the screen under
probe-scsi. Runs NetBSD nice and fine though... :)
David/abs abs@anim.dreamworks.com
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