Subject: Re: Magnum...
To: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: Mark Abene <phiber@radicalmedia.com>
List: port-mips
Date: 02/05/2001 03:58:00
It turns out the call to tsleep in scsiconf.c is never returning.
I wanted to try getting scsi to work so I could install to a local disk
once I netbooted with nfs.  Are you aware of the scsi driver working at all
on port-arc with Magnum clones?  I was under the impression it did work,
so I figured it would work on a real Magnum as well...

-Mark

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 05:21:34PM +0900, Toru Nishimura wrote:
> > Now, I get to...
> >
> > scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
> >
> > ...as the last message after autoconfig'ing is done, but it just sits there
> > forever (despite the supposed 2 second wait).  I currently don't have any
> > hard drive connected, but I'll try that next.
> 
> I recommend to rip SCSI stuff off before you get single user shell # prompt.
> I've experiencing mystrious lockups when proc0 poses for scsi devices, and
> postponed SCSI until other parts get debugged.
> 
> Tohru Nishimura