On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 06:19:24PM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> On 11/24/05, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 09:21:27AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> > > I'm trying to upgrade my prep box to the latest 3.0 RC1 binary build,
> > > and I noticed something.
> > >
> > > I booted the kernel with the 2.0.2 userland still intact. This worked.
> > >
> > > I noticed some different stuff, so I wanted to pull the kernel configs
> > > from the 2.0.2 kernel and the 3.0 RC1 kernel and compare them. So I
> > > used this command straight from the options man page:
> > >
> > > strings netbsd | sed -n 's/^_CFG_//p' | unvis
> > >
> > > Except I redirected that to a file:
> > >
> > > strings netbsd | sed -n 's/^_CFG_//p' | unvis > /root/kernconf.2.0.2
> > >
> > > Now, for the weird part.
> > >
> > > The directory that I redirected the file into suddenly behaves as if
> > > it has no files in it. That is, ls shows nothing:
> > >
> > > root@bugs:/root # ls /root
> > > root@bugs:/root #
> > >
> > > If I reboot, it comes back.
> > >
> > > What? How can this be happening?
> >
> > On what kind of disk system is it ?
> 
> It's an IBM scsi disk on a scsi controller.

Is the scsi controller a siop or esiop ? If so, this may be fixed 
by upgrading to 3.0_RC3

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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