Subject: Re: Problems booting
To: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 12/11/1995 01:54:22
On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Gordon W. Ross wrote:

> > Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 16:25:17 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
> 
> >   After booting from a 1.1 boottape, partitioning the drive, copying the 
> > mini-root, and re-booting with the miniroot, I get:
> > 
> > Boot: sd(0,0,1)netbsd -s
> > scsi: getbyte failed
> > invalid status msg = 1
> > scsi: getbyte failed
> > invalid status msg = 1
> > scsi: getbyte failed
> > invalid status msg = 1
> > scsi: dma never completed
> 
> That is the PROM complaining.  Is it an old (<3.0) PROM rev?

  No.  It is  3.0.1

  I suspect that it could be the disk setup.  I notice that the other 
devices that came with the 3/60 all have SCSI parity disabled.  Is this 
required for boot devices?

Tom