Re: Problem(s) installing OpenBSD/hppa 3.3 on a model 735/125

Peter Wright [[email protected]] wrote:
> On 26/06 07:03:01, Paul Weissmann wrote:
> > You mention NetBSD lifimage work fine - how far have you tried that
> > and from which date?
> 
> The NetBSD lifimage I used is dated July 6 2002, as you can see below.
> I grabbed it from:

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> The NetBSD/hp700 page - http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/hp700/ -
> specifically lists "5 MB/s NCR 53C700 SCSI controller (osiop)" as
> supported (in its otherwise rather small list of supported hardware).
> Also, having just had a look through the recent NetBSD/hp700 mailing
> list archives, I ran across this post:

Are you able to access the sd0 drive in your system when you boot
the system via NFS into either single/multiuser?

> (BTW, is there an archive of the OpenBSD/hppa mailing list anywhere? I
> had a look around but couldn't find one.)

<http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-hppa&r=1&w=2>

> Hm... Paul, do you know if anyone's likely to be working on an Open
> driver for the NCR53C700 controller at the moment?  Actually, looking
> again at my failed attempts with the OpenBSD "snapshot" lif33.fs
> images, it _appears_ that the controller is being mis(?)- identified
> as an NCR53C710 instead of a NCR53C700... 

I think there is work going on, but I don't know for sure how far, if
at all, 53C700 support got.

...

> Can anyone shed any light on this? Should the NCR53C700 controller
> actually be identified as a NCR53C710, or is this a known bug?

yes. no, yes.


	- paul