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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