Subject: Re: Sun 3/60 TERMPWR/diskless
To: Nathan Lane <nathan@textiles.org>
From: Todd Hansen <todd@mpl.ucsd.edu>
List: port-sun3
Date: 05/22/1998 10:28:14
what was the status of your attempts to resurect the label on the disk.
That seems like all that is needed.
	-taco

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Nathan Lane wrote:

> > The most unfortunate part of all of this is that while I have the facilities
> > to run this system with the fried SCSI as diskless, it has been my experience
> > that NetBSD/sun3 does not run reliably this way - it invokes the "everything
> > core dumps" bug with unhappy frequency. Has anyone else had better luck running
> > a Sun 3/50 or 3/60 diskless?
> >
> 
> I'm having excellent luck with a 3/110 w/8MB as my network time server
> and network management workstation.  A friend has a 3/60 that has been
> working pretty well - he did have some "everything core dumps all the
> time" problems but after he replaced the upper 4MB of SIMMs (with 3-chip
> no less) it seemed to clear up - only happens every few days now instead
> of once every few minutes.  He's running 1.3 and I'm running 1.3.1.
> 
> -Nathan Lane
> 
> 
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