I seriously wish someone would look at it / fix it. I'm running a small
herd of SCSI devices from a Cumana SCSI card, several of which I need to
use professionally.

I don't need to use the SCSI side to run NetBSD, but I'm not prepared to
unplug the SCSI card for the convenience of what would be, for me, mostly
a hobby OS.

Tony 



On 27 Dec, Carl Hetherington <carl@cth103.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <19991227093909.A1178@nord-com.net>
>           Jan-Uwe Finck <ju.finck@nord-com.net> wrote:

> > On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 01:57:07AM +0000, Carl Hetherington wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > My apologies if this is a FAQ; I am a brand-new user of NetBSD/arm32 and
> > > I haven't found any clues to my problem yet...
> > 
> > No, I don't think it is.

> That's ok then.

> >  
> > > It all boots up fine and works when my Powertec SCSI-3 card is physically
> > > removed from the machine, but when its installed NetBSD fails to boot. 
> > > The kernel goes through printing its messages about what hardware is
> > > installed, prints a line about SCSI and then hangs.  There is a single
> > > hard disc connected to the SCSI card.
> > > 
> > > I don't need to actually access the SCSI drive under NetBSD, I'd just
> > > like to be able to boot it without removing the card.  Any suggestions?
> > 
> > I don't think this is your fault.
> > 
> > We seem to have several problems with SCSI.
> > The Cumana SCSI II controller makes the machine crash when accessed,
> > and the Connect32 didn't work properly as far as I can remember.
> > 
> > Maybe someone with a bigger programming skill than mine can have a
> > look at this ?

> Perhaps we just need a kernel option to stop the kernel scanning any SCSI
> system.  If I have the will I'll try playing around with some kernel
> compilations and then maybe there's a possible hack...

> Unless anyone else has already been there ;-)
> Thanks for your help.

> Carl