Re: scsi freezing problem with NetBSD current

["David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>]

It works!

Now it gets up to the unterminated quoted string issue you had mentioned 
previously.  Specifically, I get:

init: trying /sbin/init
-sh: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string

David Ross
dross%pobox.com@localhost

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T. Makinen" <tjamaloo%gmail.com@localhost>
To: "David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>
Cc: "David Brownlee" <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>; 
<port-atari%netbsd.org@localhost>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: scsi freezing problem with NetBSD current


> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:24 AM, David Ross <dross%pobox.com@localhost> wrote:
> > Following up on that idea I had to use the 1.6.1 kernel and 1.6.1 sysinst 
> > to
> > do the 4.0 install...  It doesn't work.  I was able to install/extract 
> > all
> > the sets, but the install wasn't able to set the password, and the
> > bootloader froze on boot, seemingly before loading the kernel image.
> >
> > But this isn't such a surprise -- I wouldn't expect the 1.6.1 stuff to be
> > able to successfully install 4.0.
> > The current blocker on the pure 4.0 install is the failure to 
> > successfully
> > load the sysinst floppy from md2a:
> > http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=39850
> >
> > David Ross
> > dross%pobox.com@localhost
>
> It seems, that adding brelse(bp, 0) in md_root..c to unbusy bp buffer 
> after
> biowait() fixes md2a device problems.
>
> Could you try current kernel with this patch:
> http://koti.welho.com/tmakinen/atari/netbsd-current-atari-BOOT-20081103.gz
>
> --- md_root.c.orig      2008-11-03 21:32:43.000000000 +0200
> +++ md_root.c   2008-11-03 23:27:11.000000000 +0200
> @@ -247,6 +247,8 @@
>                        printf("\n");
>
>                done = bp->b_bcount - bp->b_resid;
> +               brelse(bp, 0);
> +
>                bytes_left   -= done;
>                rsp->offset  += done;
>                rsp->bufp    += done;
> @@ -324,6 +326,8 @@
>                        printf("\n");
>
>                done = bp->b_bcount - bp->b_resid;
> +               brelse(bp, 0);
> +
>                nbyte        -= done;
>                nread        += done;
>                rsp->offset  += done;
>
> -Tuomo