Re: NetBSD 10 on Cobalt doesn't like IDE DMA

Izumi Tsutsui <[email protected]> Sun, 1 Oct 2023 11:00:17 +0900

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mips.devel
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> > IIRC, the Qube doesn't have a serial port, so if you do get in to a position where you're booting without DMA disabled, it can take a good half an hour of retries to go fully multiuser.
> 
> It 100% has a serial port.

Not quite, the first generation Qube2700 requires an optional
Z8530 board to get a serial port.

 https://www.netbsd.org/ports/cobalt/faq.html#qube2700serial
 https://twitpic.com/8jtwm8

IIRC, SSDs via SATA-IDE converters could be problematic on my Qube.

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Izumi Tsutsui