Subject: Re: SCSI status ?
To: None <port-acorn32@netbsd.org>
From: Jan-Uwe Finck <jufi@nerdnet.de>
List: port-acorn32
Date: 01/21/2002 21:34:35
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:16:27PM +0000, Mike Pumford wrote:
> > Anybody successfully using any sort of SCSI ?
> >
> > I can't boot with a Connect32 card (the machine stands forever in
> > waiting 2 seconds for the devices to settle),
> >
> This sounds very similar to a problem on the acorn SCSI card that got fixed
> just before 1.5 was release. Basically the SCSI code changed to do the SCSI
> bus scan with interrupts on instead of polled. I'll see if I can correlate the
> fix for the Acorn card with the code for the connect32. Can you build a kernel
> if I produce a patch?
Yes, I can and will, of course :-)
> ISTR the problem was that in interrupt driven mode a certain error was not
> being passed back to the machine independent SCSI layer so it can't tell
> at which ID's there is no device.
I see, thanks for the details !
> > and my CumanaII seems broken, I can't it to run under neither RiscOS
> > nor NetBSD.
> >
> Sounds like the cards busted or it needs reflashing.
Well, this seems pretty expensive.. I really prefer getting my
Connect32 working.. ;-)
> > So, does anybody out there have more luck ?
> Acorn SCSI seems to work at least with CD-ROMs.
Hmm, interesting. You don't have HD to test, don't you ?
Or anybody else with a running SCSI hard disc ?
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Greetings,
Jan-Uwe
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