On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Kevin P. Neal wrote:

> Just downloaded the latest Alpha snap, the one with the June 30ith kernel.
> 
> I booted the new kernel without updating userland or my bootblocks. My
> userland is 1.3 release and I think the boot block is 1.2-something. 
> 
> On the way up I saw some weirdness. On boot the kernel got as far as
> checking for lpt0. It printed "lpt0 at isa0 port 0x3bc-0x3bf irq 7" and then
> it just
> sat there for, oh, 15-30 seconds or so. Then it continued.
I've noticed the same 

> It then got to the part where it allocated buffer headers for uvm. The next
> message out was:
> 
> sd2(ncr0:3:0): error code 3
> sd2(ncr0:3:0): error code 3   
yep, I got this error code too !
I wanted to disklabel a disk and so I entered
'disklabel -i sd2' and whoa!! I got this error-code and
after trying 3 more times it worked then.
Same was with newfs and mounting it then ...
did someone recently add a 'feature' to the driver or
tried fixing something ??
> My fsck then failed because it couldn't access the disk. When I got a shell,
> I ran fsck again. It then said that the filesystem was clean and it wouldn't
> be checked. ???
> 
> Alright. "# exit" and then it proceeded to boot with no other problems. 
> 
> Weird.
> 
> The screen does look dimmer, but I'm on a 14" B&W monitor. Did the colors
> change? Ho hum, whatever. 

that's the new wscons stuff ...

> BTW, does anybody have Amanda-2.4.0p1 binaries? I've got 2.3 binaries but
> they won't work with my tape drive -- it bombs in 'taper' with errno==5 when
> it tries to rewind the tape. I'll get to that after I finish my upgrade.
> (Now that I think about it, the guy I got the drive from might have swapped
> out the ROMs or something. Hmmm)
> 
> Anybody see any reason I shouldn't go ahead and finish my upgrade from 1.3?
> NetBSD 1.3F (GENERIC) #1: Tue Jun 30 16:58:17 PDT 1998
>     ross@zeta.teraflop.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/GENERIC

I have the same (other disks though)

> AlphaStation 200 4/233, 233MHz
> 8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
> real mem = 67108864 (2048000 reserved for PROM, 65060864 used by NetBSD)
> avail mem = 54288384
> using 794 buffers containing 6504448 bytes of memory
> mainbus0 (root)
> cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), 21064A (reserved minor type)
> apecs0 at mainbus0: DECchip 21071 Core Logic chipset
> apecs0: DC21071-CA pass 2, 64-bit memory bus
> apecs0: DC21071-DA pass 2
> pci0 at apecs0 bus 0
> pci0: i/o enabled, memory enabled
> ncr0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0: ncr 53c810 fast10 scsi
> ncr0: interrupting at isa irq 11
> ncr0: minsync=25, maxsync=206, maxoffs=8, 16 dwords burst, normal dma fifo
> ncr0: single-ended, open drain IRQ driver
> ncr0: restart (scsi reset).
> scsibus0 at ncr0: 8 targets

> sd1(ncr0:1:0): M_DISCONNECT received, but datapointer not saved:
>         data=40c4c200 save=40c476b0 goal=40c476d4.
> sd1(ncr0:1:0): M_DISCONNECT received, but datapointer not saved:
>         data=40c4c200 save=40c476b0 goal=40c476d4.
> sd1(ncr0:1:0): M_DISCONNECT received, but datapointer not saved:
>         data=40c4c200 save=40c476b0 goal=40c476d4.
I don't get this error (is is a error ???) ^^^
> root file system type: ffs
> uvm_swap: allocated 256 swap buffer headers
> sd2(ncr0:3:0): error code 3
> sd2(ncr0:3:0): error code 3

> de0: enabling 10baseT port
> 
MARTIN