Re: Trouble booting

der Mouse <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:05:15 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hp300
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> Of course, the really annoying part is, I'm not sure whether it's
>> not finding the system because it doesn't grok the card or because I
>> botched putting it on the disk.
> What brand of hard drive are you using?

sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <MICROP, 2217-15MQ1001901, HQ30> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 1685 MB, 2372 cyl, 15 head, 96 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 3450902 sectors

That's a quote from dmesg when it was on the machine I (tried to) set
it up on.

> The HP425 boot ROM had a bug whereby [...]

And you think the 3xx machines might be similar?

I suppose they might.  If HP made that mistake once, they certainly
could have made it again.  I wonder what the slowest drive I have is.

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