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Originally Posted by
noratx
I then tried with OpenBSD, with more success than on FreeBSD, but not successfully enough.
Please explain what you mean by "more, but not enough."
Did you submit a bug report to the OpenBSD developers, try to talk to the people who work on the sparc64 port, or the IDE layer? Their response when you are a cooperative user that supplies dmesgs and access to the hardware reportly is often to fix the problem.
Supplying the complete amount of information you can (a dmesg without the hardware that causes panics/freezes, or a dmesg from another operating system which does not have the error is better than no dmesg).
If it functions, but poorly, and you can get a developer who has similar or the same hardware available, and you've got the time to devote to it, you can usually work bugs out.