Subject: Re: Powertec card stops boot
To: None <triffid@argonet.co.uk>
From: Carl Hetherington <carl@cth103.freeserve.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 12/31/1999 02:56:17
In message <497769655dtriffid@argonet.co.uk> you wrote:

> 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.

Well I don't know for sure about the Cumana card but I've managed to get
things going here with a Powertec card :-)

You've just got to recompile the kernel without SCSI support.  Of course you
can't use the SCSI card but at least it stops the kernel hanging on boot.
There's probably a fix needed to actually get SCSI working but I'm happy
without ;-)

If anyone wants details of what I did, drop me an email and I'll write it all
down.  You just need to download the kernel source, change a couple of text
files and recompile the kernel; it takes a while but it works...

Cheers,
Carl

PS I like this NetBSD, well done all you porters :-)