Re: I did a test on a DEC AlphaStation 600 and the SCSI driver seems borked

[Dennis Clarke <dclarke%blastwave.org@localhost>]

On 2/15/26 20:56, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> > On Feb 15, 2026, at 7:33 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke%blastwave.org@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > Given what you say about the NetBSD SCSI subsystem this pretty much
> > means OpenBSD works just fine out of the box and NetBSD it no longer
> > viable at all.  At least not on this old museum piece hardware.
>
> Well, of course, my intent was to help fix the issue in NetBSD’s driver.  Are you interested in that?


    Interested ?  Yes.

    Motivated ?  Not much.

Here is what I will do tonight :

    1) burn a CD-R with the latest NetBSD 11.99.5 date 20260215

    2) try to boot that with SCSI disks attached

    3) try to boot that with zero SCSI devices other than the CDROM

Who knows. Maybe having an external SCSI array attached to the machine
is a problem. No problems thus far with Debian Linux, OpenBSD or Tru64
but NetBSD is just different. So lets see what happens.


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Dennis Clarke
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UNIX and Linux spoken