Re: sun3/80 nvram

Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sun3
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:22:49PM +0100, Julian Coleman wrote:
> > I have a sun3/80 with, of course, a dead nvram battery. I did the hack
> > described in the sun nvram faq
>                                                          Howver I get
> > "New TOD Module installed, Initializing and Starting the Clock."
> > each time, even after reprogramming the nvram as described in the faq.
> 
> > Has someone sucessfully installed a new nvram in a 3/80 ?
> 
> Yep.  I followed the NVRAM FAQ and I'm fairly sure I saw the "Initializing"
> message just once.  It's been fine from then on (it was a year or so ago).

I tried again, still not good. What prom rev do you have ?
Mine is Rev 3.0.3
The FAQ says that the 3/80 won't start the clock by itself, but it seems mine
does, so there may be different behaviors for different prom revs.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           [email protected]
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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