On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Mark Hoekstra wrote:

> Yes, I guess it was pulled in working order from a serverroom. It boots
> IRIX as long as i don't put netBSD over it. I can't do anything with the
> IRIX-install as i don't have the rootpass... But anyway, I guess it's
> correctly terminated and such...
>
> I also read this on this mailinglist:
>
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sgimips/2001/11/14/0004.html
>
> ..seems there's no solution since? Maybe any one a clue for a working
> (older) kernel for the Challenge S? I don't mind the mezz-board and my
> phobos G100 card won't work(for now) ;-)

I believe the problem described above is related to a problem with the
SCSI Bus and Crontroller not being reset correctly by NetBSD during
startup.  This was resolved several days later in rev 1.3 of wdsc.c

There may be a problem with the DMA or Interrupt handling caused by
multiple HPC3's in you challenge S.
Target 1 was found, which is a healthy sign, but I suspect that it isn't
starting the sync negotiation correctly, which makes me suspect
interrupts are not being delivered correcly.

Will have a look over the sources to see if I can spot any problems.

In the meantime, could you send the output of a SCSI bus probe

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Wayne Knowles			NetBSD/mipsco port maintainer
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