[ sorry for the delay... very busy. ]

> [ Questions about getting NetBSD/Alpha going on a 3000/300LX ]
>
> Now for booting up.  Maybe my problem is that i didn't set up the other
> files that were deemed necessary in the readme file, but this is what my
> machine looks like when i boot up on a serial console.

OK.  comments below.

> BTW, is it
> possible for me to ever boot up using only one computer, or will i have
> to ALWAYS use another terminal to boot NetBSD1.1?

Until someone rights "real" display console support for TurboChannel
systems for NetBSD/Alpha, you'll need to use the serial console and
either another machine or a terminal.

> NetBSD 1.2_ALPHA (GENERIC) #45: Fri Jun 14 23:58:24 EDT 1996
>    
> cgd@bunnahabhain.pdl.cs.cmu.edu:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/GENERIC
> DEC 3000/300LX ("Pelica+"), 125MHz
> 8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
> real mem = 33554432 (2097152 reserved for PROM, 31457280 used by NetBSD)
> avail mem = 24207360
> using 384 buffers containing 3145728 bytes of memory
> mainbus0 (root)
> cpu0 at mainbus0: 21064 (EV4), Pass 3, Revision F001
> cpu0: VAX FP support, IEEE FP support
> tcasic0 at mainbus0
> tc0 at tcasic0: 12.5 MHz clock
> sfb0 at tc0 slot 4 offset 0x2000000: 1280 x 1024, 8bpp
> wscons0 at sfb0
> ioasic0 at tc0 slot 3 offset 0x0: slow mode
> le0 at ioasic0 offset 0xc0000: address 08:00:2b:be:da:8c
> le0: 32 receive buffers, 8 transmit buffers
> scc0 at ioasic0 offset 0x100000: console
> scc1 at ioasic0 offset 0x180000
> mcclock0 at ioasic0 offset 0x200000: mc146818 or compatible
> AMD79c30 at ioasic0 offset 0x240000 not configured
> tcds0 at tc0 slot 2 offset 0x0
> esp0 at tcds0 slot 0: address 90100000: NCR53C94 25Mhz, target 7
> scsibus0 at esp0
> probe(esp0:2:0): max sync rate 6.25Mb/s
> sd0 at scsibus0 targ 2 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST51080N, 0913> SCSI2 0/direct
> fixed
> sd0: 1030MB, 4826 cyl, 4 head, 109 sec, 512 bytes/sec

All of this looks normal...

> esp0: ICCS: expected 2, got 3 : [intr 8, stat 87, step 4]
> probe(esp0:2:1): timed out (ecb 0x4a5490f0 (flags 0x0, dleft 2c), state
> 5, phase
>  7, msgpriq 4, msgout 0)
> timed out (ecb 0x4a5490f0 (flags 0x10, dleft 2c), state 5, phase 7,
> msgpriq 4, m
> sgout 0) AGAIN
> esp: message queue not empty: 4!
> esp:2: rejecting SDTR
> esp:2: rejecting SDTR
> esp:2: rejecting SDTR
> [ ... ]

whoa, hey, this is Bad!

It sounds like the 53c94 SCSI driver is Unhappy about having to talk
to that drive.  I could believe that; that driver is known to be fragile.

It should probably be sync'd up with the sparc version again, but i
won't be able to do that until after this (long) weekend.  Please ping
me on wednesday, if you've not heard anything from me about this.



chris