The following reply was made to PR kern/32717; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/32717: alpha 3.0 install kernel doesn't see scsi disks
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 19:39:26 +0100

 On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:35:00AM +0000, Ken Raeburn wrote:
 > [...]
 > 	?
 > 
 > 	Would it be worth jumping through all the hoops of updating
 > the parts of my system needed to properly build a 3.0 kernel with an
 > esiop driver (and maybe not siop?), to see if that fares any better?
 
 You could try booting a 3.0 GENERIC kernel on your 2.0 system (this should
 work), and see if it works better. It's possible that siop(4) has not been
 tested for a long time on newer NCR/symbios cards as most kernels also have
 esiop(4).
 
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