On 2014-05-22 15:54, Holm Tiffe wrote:
Johnny Billquist wrote:On 2014-05-22 15:26, Holm Tiffe wrote:Holm Tiffe wrote: NetBSD 1.5.3 is running flawlessly so far and I'm currently unpacking the sets to the Quantum Disk. Somewhere between that 1.5.3 and 1.6.2 the VS3100 has died...Which definitely rules out any hardware issues. As it would seem the problems also are not universal, it would seem to be some specific hardware in your machine. And since the problem happens when working with the disk, the SCSI subsystem is the prime suspect. Afraid I can't help much in there. I have not played with that code much, and I also don't have a matching machine to reproduce the problem. I hope someone else have a similar machine on which to reproduce and fix this. JohnnyYes, this is definitve not easy to find a such long lasting bug. Even if I can draw 1.5.3 Sources out of the CVS (can I?) I think it wouldn't be possible to crossbuild the entire "world" on my PC.
Not sure if cross-builds had been made possible yet back then.But yes, you can definitely get the sources out of cvs. That is what cvs is for.
First I'll try to install fully that 1.5.3 to the disk (still running) and verify if it is behaving correctly (kernel build?). Maybe before that I'll put the disk in the M76 to look if it goes identically there.
Since you've observed the same problems on that machine, odds are that 1.5.3 will also work fine on that machine.
Next thing would be NEtbooting and teht the folowing available releases and to find out where it stops. Anyone knows what the kernel tries next after putting out this "root file system is ffs" (or so?). That is where 1.6.2 simply halts...
I seem to remember that the main reason if it stops there is if you do not have /dev populated.
Johnny