Yes I installed the first time using the generic kernel
and the PIO SCSI was painfully slow.  Next time I used
the DMA SCSI kernel and thing went *much* quicker.

-Blake
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
To: Joel Sutton <jsutton@bbcon.com.au>
Cc: port-vax@netbsd.org <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Date: Friday, March 03, 2000 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [VAX] Re: Running the 19991115 snapshot


>
>
>Joel Sutton wrote:
>>
>> Chris,
>>
>> I guess I must not have made myself clear enough. I shouldn't write
emails
>> at 2am in the morning I suppose. :-) My fault.
>
> Been here done that :) I was actually up till two this morning to win
>a PMAG-E on Ebay.
>
>> First of all, a recap. I've managed to get one of my VaxStations running
>> 1.4.1 without any problems. I've got it netbooting off of my FreeBSD
>> server using mopd, DHCP and NFS (of course). After spending a few days
>> mucking about I finally discovered that the mopd version in the FreeBSD
>> ports collection wasn't patched as specified in the Netboot how-to. I
>> recompiled with the necessary patches and off we went. I've submitted a
PR
>> & patches to the FreeBSD people so that should fix that problem for other
>> people.
>
> Ah, well my general point was that the NetBSD MOP implementation
>(I *THINK*) is buggy as hell on all ports except vax. My troubles have
>been mostly with trying to mop DECstations and MOP my VAX from a
>DECstation.
>I can however MOP a DECstation from the VAX IIRC.
>
>> So anyway, back to the point. I thought that I would give one of the more
>> recent versions of NetBSD, a go. I've got 2 VS3100's so it seemed like a
>> good idea at the time. So I downloaded all of the tar files in the
>> /pub/NetBSD/arch/vax/19991115/binary/sets/, no problem. However, there
>> doesn't seem to be a corresponding kernel subdirectory. Hence, my
>> confusion about which kernel to use. Do I use my 1.4.1 generic kernel?
>> I've also found netbsd-1.4L-DMASCSI somewhere - is that the one to use?
>
> That is odd, I didn't notice that before. You should be fine using
>the 1.4.1 Install kernels/netboot kernels. They won't have DMA SCSI in
>them,
>but as long as you guide the install to the snapshot sets, you'll have
>DMA
>SCSI on the machine after you install it.
>
>
> Chris