Subject: Re: vs3100/3x SCSI broken in 2.0_BETA?
To: None <hjalmar@hjalmar.to>
From: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/25/2004 15:35:32
It seems as the bug was introduced to -current when nathanw_sa was
merged just over a year ago.

Thanks for finding and fixing this! I will check it in soon.

-- Ragge

> 
> > I just attempted to upgrade a vs3100/30 from 1.6.1 to 2.0_BETA
> > but the install kernel crashes as soon as it touches the disks.
> > Initial probing during bootup is okay but when the installer goes to
> > checkout the filesystem to prepare an upgrade the kernel crashes.
> >
> I also have a VS3100/m30 and I get panic from any raw disk I/O using
> current from a few days ago. I just filed a pr, port-vax/25307, with
> a patch. Looking at the history of vsbus.c it seems the bug has been
> there for more than a year.
> 
> 
> > Also sometimes the kernel marks the disks as offline during
> > probing and the installer then can't find any disks.
> >
> Mine are marked as offline, but they seem to work anyway, for normal
> use, I have not tried sysinst.
> 
> sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <DEC, RZ24     (C) DEC, 211B> disk fixed
> sd0: drive offline
> sd0: async, 8-bit transfers
> sd1 at scsibus0 target 2 lun 0: <DEC, RZ24     (C) DEC, 211B> disk fixed
> sd1: drive offline
> sd1: async, 8-bit transfers
> 
> 
> -hjalmar
> 
> 
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