[rescue] Vaxstation 4000 96

[Jochen Kunz]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 07:31:48AM -0600, Eric Dittman wrote:

> I seem to recall that NetBSD can corrupt the firmware on the
> VAXstation 4000/9x systems.
Unfortunately: It can not, it _will_!
This is a strange thing. On some models (90A or 96?) or some revisions
of hardware or PROM software it doesn't do this bad thing. But it
will tweak some bits in the FLASH of all other machines. They
will report a ?SYS error when the selftest runns, thus preventing 
autoboot. This is the only impact. Annoying, but not critical.
-- 



tsch|_,
         Jochen

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