On Sat, 24 Jan 1998 21:47:04 -0600 
 Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> wrote:

 > Hi folks,

Hiya...

 > ncr0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0: ncr 53c810 fast10 scsi
 > ncr0: interrupting at isa irq 11
 > ncr0: minsync=25, maxsync=206, maxoffs=8, 16 dwords burst, normal dma fifo
 > ncr0: single-ended, open drain IRQ driver
 > ncr0: restart (scsi reset)
 > scsibus0 at ncr0: 8 targets
 > sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <HP, C3325A 5256> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
 > sd0: sd0(ncr0:0:0): 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8)
 > 2048MB, 3703 cyl, 9 head, 125 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4194304 sectors

I had this _exact_ problem with the ncr driver and an HP drive on
both an Alpha _and_ a Pentium machine.  I suspect it's a bug in the
ncr driver (big surprise! :-), but I have no idea what it is... *sigh*

Unfortunately, my solution was to take back the HP drive and get a
Seagate :(

 > When attempting to read or write sd0 (such as when the install script
 > attempts to disklabel), the following message is emitted with each
 > operation:
 > 
 > sd0(ncr0:0:0): command aborted, data = 00 00 00 00 4e 00 00 00 00 00
 > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 > 
 > Can anybody loan me a clue as to how to proceed?
 > 
 > FWIW, this same box previously ran NT 4.0, NT 5.0, and Red Hat Linux
 > 4.2, so I tend to think that this is not a hardware problem.
 > 
 > Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>
 > 
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