Subject: Re: Problems with hard drive on a Sparcstation IPC
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/17/2001 15:02:01
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, David Brownlee wrote:
> If you can compile a kernel, you can set the flags on the
> esp device:
No, I'm afraid I can't do that at this moment, perhaps someone else
(on this list) would do it for me... :-)
> ## The following flags may be set for the NCR53c94 based esp driver:
> ## bits 0-7: disable disconnect/reselect for the corresponding target
> ## bits 8-15: disable synchronous negotiation for target [bit-8]
>
> To disable sync for all targets, you should be able to use:
>
> esp0 at sbus0 slot ? offset ? flags 0xff00 # sun4c
I see.
Does NetBSD/sparc have a userconfig -c flag like the one FreeBSD
offers during reboot?
options USERCONFIG
and
options VISUAL_USERCONFIG
in the kernel config file.
> Though please submit a PR on this - it would obviously be better
> if NetBSD could handle it automatically. If you would be willing to
> ship the drive to someone to work with, its probably worth mentioning
Well, I can submit a PR, but I don't know about shipping the drive.
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