[fleeno]

I am using a terminator on the CDROM drive, it has a terminator on one port, and the other connected to the machine. On the internal side I've tried a plain SCSI cable with termination enabled on the BlueSCSI. I've also tried the original SCSI cable that has a built-in terminator, with the BlueSCSI's termination disabled. I've also tried a Seagate drive just like the one that came with the machine, using a terminator on the internal cable. When not using the CDROM, I had a terminator on the external port.

I have in the past installed both OpenBSD and IRIX using a real drive and this same CDROM drive.

It was my understanding that you need a terminator on both the external port and the internal port, I think that's what you're saying too. These are active terminators (or at least they say they are!)

As for parity, the real drive does have its parity jumper installed. The BlueSCSI defaults to parity on. The CDROM drive I guess I'm not sure on, it's one of those Sun external drives that matches a SPARCstation. But even so I know I have parity on the drive when it's the only thing on the bus.

I did just try setting the date, which works, but OpenBSD still complains. I'm not sure if OpenBSD just halts when it doesn't like the date, or if it's something later that's hanging things up.

Thanks!

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I just tried something I hadn't tried before, using the BlueSCSI as both the hard drive and CDROM drive. I put the NetBSD image on there as a CD, and it actually booted. However, the installer screen is all garbled and just redraws over and over. I've attached an image, it's very odd!