i got this when i installed a new hard disk. the problem seemed to arise
out of

1. the kernel was non-sbc. when i got sbc-11 (the name of the kernel) it
behaved
2. netbsd doesn't like scsi-id number 5. dunno why.

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On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, James Scott wrote:

>     Argh! i cant boot into NetBSD because of "error SCSIRead (), #5" i get
> this right after the first numbers in the Booter, i cant even get to the
> command line.....  I dont know what to do to fix this.
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