On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:59:03 +0930 (CST) 
 blymn@baea.com.au (Brett Lymn) wrote:

 > I too am seeing this on a i386 machine with a ncr.  If I wait for long
 > enough I am rewarded with a script timeout but the thing never boots
 > regardless.

The NCR problem was a bug in the NCR driver (race condition) that only
appeared after I converted the SCSI code to use pools for scsipi_xfer
structures.

Ross Harvey committed a fix to the NCR bug the other day.

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