Subject: A couple of problems with drivers
To: None <port-alpha@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Andreas Johansson <ajo@wopr.campus.luth.se>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/22/1997 14:41:24
Hi!

I'm new to alpha NetBSD, but I have worked with Linux-Alpha for a long
time.

I recently tried to install NetBSD on my machine (an axppci33 aka noname),
but two major problems appeared:

1. The ncr53c810 onboard works, but writes to a _fast_ disk hangs the
   scsi bus entirely. A slower disk works with no problems, and slowing
   down the writes to the fast disk (ddb via serial console and debugging 
   messages for the driver) makes the problem go away too.

2. NE2000 clones doesn't show at all. It didn't seem as they were
   supported at all on NetBSD-alpha, why?

If anyone knows anything about these two problems, this might save me some
time digging in the kernel sources.

Thanks!

  Andreas

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