The following reply was made to PR kern/32717; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/32717: alpha 3.0 install kernel doesn't see scsi disks
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 15:10:25 -0500

 On Feb 3, 2006, at 13:40, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 >> 	Would it be worth jumping through all the hoops of updating
 >> the parts of my system needed to properly build a 3.0 kernel with an
 >> esiop driver (and maybe not siop?), to see if that fares any better?
 >
 >  You could try booting a 3.0 GENERIC kernel on your 2.0 system  
 > (this should
 >  work), and see if it works better. It's possible that siop(4) has  
 > not been
 >  tested for a long time on newer NCR/symbios cards as most kernels  
 > also have
 >  esiop(4).
 
 Ah, good idea, I should've thought of that. :-/
 
 I got netbsd-GENERIC for 3.0 from the ftp server and booted it ("boot  
 -file /netbsd-3.0-GENERIC dkb0").  The kernel used the esiop driver  
 for the SCSI controller, instead of siop, but still displayed the  
 same probe error messages (with "siop" replaced by "esiop"), and  
 failed to find sd0 or sd1.
 
 Ken