Need help with SONY NWS-3860

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From: Andrew Pettifer
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 00:00

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Hi,
I've got a problem with a SONY NWS-3860 that i'm trying to get going.
I don't have great hopes of success, as i suspect the fault is connected
in some way to the onboard MIPS R3000 processor.

The problem is that it just wont Boot!
This is what happens:

Boot0 (NEWS-OS 4.1) loading sd(0,0,1,0,7)boot
Boot (NEWS-OS 4.1, news3800)
iop: sd(0,0,1,0,7)/mrx
194776+19344+27444 start at 0x00001000 (magic 0410)
cpu: sd(0,0,1,0,7)/vmunix
text_start=0x80001000, data_start=0x800bdf20, entry=0x80001844
.text:address=0x80001000-0x800bdf1f, size=773920
.rdata:address=0x800bdf20-0x800bfa9f, size=7040
.data:address=0x800bfaa0-0x800fc61f, size=248704
.sdata:address=0x800fc620-0x80103d6f, size=30544
.sbss:address=0x80103d70-0x80105f8f, size=8736
.bss:address=0x80105f90-0x801276cf, size=137024

Once it reaches this point it just freezes, so i suspect a fault with the R3000.
I beleive that up until this point, it is running solely on the 68030 I/O
processor, and that it attempts to start executing code on the R3000 when
it loads the kernel.

ANY information that anyone can give me would be VERY much appreciated.
(I'd really like the Technical Manual, or if anyones throwing out any
old hardware :)

Thanks in advance

Andrew Pettifer
Computer Centres
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
ajp@rmit.edu.au

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From: ajp@rmit.edu.au (Andrew Pettifer)
Subject: Need help with SONY NWS-3860
Date: 1995/10/06
Message-ID: <ajp-0610951329440001@ajpmac.xx.rmit.edu.au>
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