[rescue] Sun Blade 100 and NetBSD

[Nick B.]

This is a "OS that expects to see a non-broken IDE controller" thing, which
makes it a non-solaris thing.
	Nick
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:00:23AM -0400, Bryan Gurney wrote:
> This seems to be the suggestion for the Ultra 5 as well.  I don't seem to have any problems with my U5 in Solaris 10.  Is it just a non-Solaris thing?
> 
> Also, are there any more modern PCI-based controllers that would work with OFW to boot?  I've found that the U5 controller isn't the fastest thing in the world, but at least it's faster than the 10 MHz SCSI controller in my SS5.
> 
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 01:55:45 -0400, Nick B. wrote:
> 
> > The sun blade's IDE controller is... erm, well I'll be polite and call it
> > horribly broken.  Disable DMA, it may fix your issues.
> > 	Nick
> > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 01:18:41AM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> >> I just got around to upgrading the firmware on my Sun Blade 100 from
> >> 4.0.1 to 4.17.1.
> >>
> >> Before, I would get random hangs while sysinst was unpacking the
> >> tarballs.  Now I can't even get sysinst to come up.  The system is
> >> hanging up at:
> >>
> >> root file system type: ffs
> >>
> >> Solaris 10 seems to work fine.  I would appreciate any help.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Peace...  Sridhar
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