is this also the cause of the problem these controllers have with NetBSD? 


On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
> Well, that particular bit wasn't too strange.  They just refuse to
> lie, and say they've generated an interrupt while (during boot)
> interrupts are disabled, and the controller is being operated in a
> polled mode.  So, in /sys/vaxstand/uda.c, one has to properly pass
> ownership of MSCP datagram containers back and forth between CPU and
> controller, for instance by modifying the code like this:

(uda.c patch snipped)