Not directly related to your question but:

http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

Very good site on NVRAM problems with sparcs.  I used a trick in there
to solder a new battery pack on my sparc saving the cost of buying a new
NVRAM chip.

NetBSD Bob wrote:
> 
> I have a couple of disks from an OpenBSD SS1 machine that lost its nvram
> and has become problematic.  I want to recover the information from the
> disks into NetBSD, but it does not recognize the disk labels?  What is
> different between the two?  Is it a Sun hardware thing, or a difference
> in the actual labels?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob

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Pat Wendorf