netBSD1.1 - success stories??
Stephen Riehm
I've been reading with horror, all the NetBSD1.1 locks up here, and
hangs there, and mangled disk descriptors etc etc and have for this
reason not yet upgraded from 1.0. What's even more worrying, is that I
haven't seen any answers, mentions of patches or even any moral
support for these poor souls.
Has anyone actually had NetBSD1.1 work as it is supposed to yet??
Can anyone claim having success with an A3000, softkicked, with no
cards, quantum and fujitsu drives? (my fujitsu gives netbsd some
problems because it steals 3 blocks per cylinder for it own use).
If I had enough free space to create a new partition for 1.1 I would
try it out, but I don't, which means upgrading to 1.1 - kills 1.0!
Here's hoping for some good luck stories!
Dana Canfield
: Hi all,
:
: I've been reading with horror, all the NetBSD1.1 locks up here, and
: hangs there, and mangled disk descriptors etc etc and have for this
: reason not yet upgraded from 1.0. What's even more worrying, is that I
: haven't seen any answers, mentions of patches or even any moral
: support for these poor souls.
:
: Has anyone actually had NetBSD1.1 work as it is supposed to yet??
: Can anyone claim having success with an A3000, softkicked, with no
: cards, quantum and fujitsu drives? (my fujitsu gives netbsd some
: problems because it steals 3 blocks per cylinder for it own use).
The upgrade worked just fine for me. Just followed the intructions to
the letter. I have an A3000, 25Mhz, A2065, and a Fujitsu 1GB HD. No problems
whatsoever. I even goofed once during the installation, and was able to re-do
it from scratch without any data loss.
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Michael Teske
> Hi all,
> I've been reading with horror, all the NetBSD1.1 locks up here, and
> hangs there, and mangled disk descriptors etc etc and have for this
> reason not yet upgraded from 1.0. What's even more worrying, is that I
> haven't seen any answers, mentions of patches or even any moral
> support for these poor souls.
Since some of the severe problems were from people in germany, part of
the discussion has gone to de.comp.sys.amiga.unix. Sorry!
The probs are related to some 040 systems with Z3 boards which crash with
bus errors, so people without an CV64/Retina shouldn't have any problems.
And most people with CV64/Retina don't have problems, too.
[...]
> Here's hoping for some good luck stories!
Yeah, NetBSD 1.1 is running fine here.
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Michael Teske (te...@dice2.desy.de)
Matthias Scheler
stories??":
> The probs are related to some 040 systems with Z3 boards which crash
The problems ARE not related to any Z3 problems. The reason for the
CV64 problems was a change in the S3 chipset used on new boards which
required a change in the initialization.
> so people without an CV64/Retina shouldn't have any problems.
I don't know the reasons for the Retina ZIII problems but they are
NOT related to the problems of the CV64.
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Matthias Scheler
tr...@lyssa.owl.de
Michael Teske
> Michael Teske wrote in comp.unix.amiga about "Re: netBSD1.1 - success
> stories??":
> > The probs are related to some 040 systems with Z3 boards which crash
> > with bus errors, ...
> The problems ARE not related to any Z3 problems. The reason for the
> CV64 problems was a change in the S3 chipset used on new boards which
> required a change in the initialization.
Yes, you're right. Thanks again for working that out.
> > so people without an CV64/Retina shouldn't have any problems.
> I don't know the reasons for the Retina ZIII problems but they are
> NOT related to the problems of the CV64.
According to Bernd it was the usual RETINA_SPEED_HACK on/off problem.
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Michael Teske (te...@dice2.desy.de)
Matthias Scheler
stories??":
> Is there a kernel with this change in the initialization available yet ?
Yes.
Download "kernel/netbsd-cv64-fix.gz" from "ftp.uni-regensburg.de" or one
of its mirror sites.
NOTE: This is NOT an install kernel. It will not be able to boot a
miniroot partition.
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Matthias Scheler
tr...@lyssa.owl.de
Jeroen Oudejans
|> Michael Teske wrote in comp.unix.amiga about "Re: netBSD1.1 - success
|> stories??":
|> > The probs are related to some 040 systems with Z3 boards which crash
|> > with bus errors, ...
|>
|> The problems ARE not related to any Z3 problems. The reason for the
|> CV64 problems was a change in the S3 chipset used on new boards which
|> required a change in the initialization.
|>
Is there a kernel with this change in the initialization available yet ?
Best regards,
Jeroen Oudejans
<jhwo...@cs.ruu.nl>
Matthias Scheler
stories??":
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> This fixed kernel did fix my problems. It works like a charm with my
> CV64.
Good to know.
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Matthias Scheler
tr...@lyssa.owl.de
Jeroen Oudejans
|> Jeroen Oudejans wrote in comp.unix.amiga about "Re: netBSD1.1 - success
|> stories??":
|>
|>
|> Download "kernel/netbsd-cv64-fix.gz" from "ftp.uni-regensburg.de" or one
|> of its mirror sites.
|>
|> NOTE: This is NOT an install kernel. It will not be able to boot a
|> miniroot partition.
This fixed kernel did fix my problems. It works like a charm with my CV64.
Jeroen Oudejans.
<jhwo...@cs.ruu.nl>
Jeroen Oudejans
|> Jeroen Oudejans wrote in comp.unix.amiga about "Re: netBSD1.1 - success
|> stories??":
|> > This fixed kernel did fix my problems. It works like a charm with my
|> > CV64.
|>
|>
My only problem is that my SCSI bus hangs after a reset, but I can live
with that. It did work with NetBSD 1.0 though.
Jeroen Oudejans
<jhwo...@cs.ruu.nl>