Subject: VS3100 SCSI oddities
To: None <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/03/1998 13:33:29
  This is strange.  Until today I was MOPing my VS3100/M30, grabbing the
kernel (1.3 GENERIC) via NFS, and then chugging along with local filesystems
(root on sd0a, swap on sd0b, /usr on sd0e).  Worked fine.  I finally got
around to installing xxboot; I can now load the kernel using the rom()gennetbsd
syntax and the machine boots single-user no problem.  However, when I try to
go multiuser I get tonnes of

DMA incomplete: ntrans=3073/3072, lock=98
si_dma_stop: timeout?
DMA incomplete: ntrans=3073/3072, lock=98
si_dma_stop: timeout?

...and so on.  Now I'm well aware of the brokenness of the current DMA code but
why does it work fine when I load the kernel over NFS?

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