>>>> It took my diskless Sun-3/260 about a week to do a full rebuild
>>>> (everything except the kernel).
> Adding a disk is a big improvement.

I would expect so!

> 'Course, if you don't have SCSI on your 3/260 (I don't think it was
> standard, was it?) you're up a creek...How's the `xy' driver coming
> along (directed at whomever posted about it so long ago...)?

I have three Suns: two -3/260s and a -3/150.  The -3/260s have SCSI
cards in them, but I think they're the ones NetBSD doesn't work with
(si instead of sc, or the other way around - I forget which is which).
They're also the ones where you get the interface to the SCSI chain off
a bunch of pins on the VME backplane.  But the -3/150 has a newer SCSI
card, with a DB-50 on the back of the card.  Unfortunately it has only
a serial console[%], which means it's unusable with the binary snapshot
kernel (it hangs hard, very soon after the device probe messages are
complete).  I intend to use the diskless machine to do kernel work
until I have a zs driver that doesn't hang, and then switch over to the
other machine, to which I expect to add some disk....

[%] Well, it does have a bwtwo, but I have no monitor for that; all I
    have is R/G/B/sync color monitors for the cgtwos in the -3/260s.
    I've considered taking a cgtwo from one of the /260s and putting it
    in the /150....

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