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

[Magnus Lindholm <linmag7%gmail.com@localhost>]

> >> 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.
> >

Hi everyone,

I was following this thread and decided to fire up my ES40 which has
NetBSD on one of the drives. Below is my boot message. I have
a Qlogic ISP controller and a drive attached to it (sd1) seems to work
fine here. I'm seeing some other issues on the ES40 though, but the
ISP driver seems to work. (see below)

Regards Magnus


[     1.000000] cpu1 at mainbus0: ID 1, 21264A-14 (EV67)
[     1.000000] cpu1: Architecture extensions: 0x307<PAT,MVI,CIX,FIX,BWX>
[     1.000000] cpu2 at mainbus0: ID 2, 21264A-9 (EV67)
[     1.000000] cpu2: Architecture extensions: 0x307<PAT,MVI,CIX,FIX,BWX>
[     1.000000] cpu3 at mainbus0: ID 3, 21264A-9 (EV67)
[     1.000000] cpu3: Architecture extensions: 0x307<PAT,MVI,CIX,FIX,BWX>
[     1.000000] tsc0 at mainbus0: 21272 Core Logic Chipset, Cchip rev 0
[     1.000000] tsc0: 8 Dchips, 2 memory buses of 32 bytes
[     1.000000] tsc0: arrays present: 4096MB (split), 0MB, 0MB, 0MB,
Dchip 0 rev 1
[     1.000000] tsp0 at tsc0
[     1.000000] pci0 at tsp0 bus 0
[     1.000000] pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line,
rd/mult, wr/inv ok
[     1.000000] ahc0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: Adaptec 29160 Ultra160
SCSI adapter
[     1.000000] ahc0: interrupting at dec 6600 irq 12
[     1.000000] ahc0: aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
[     1.000000] scsibus0 at ahc0: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
[     1.000000] sio0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0: Acer Labs M1533 PCI-ISA
Bridge (rev. 0xc3)
[     1.000000] aceride0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0: Acer Labs M5229
UDMA IDE Controller (rev. 0xc1)
[     1.000000] aceride0: bus-master DMA support present
[     1.000000] aceride0: using PIO transfers above 137GB as
workaround for 48bit DMA access bug, expect reduced performance
[     1.000000] aceride0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
[     1.000000] aceride0: primary channel interrupting at isa irq 14
[     1.000000] atabus0 at aceride0 channel 0
[     1.000000] aceride0: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode
[     1.000000] aceride0: secondary channel interrupting at isa irq 15
[     1.000000] atabus1 at aceride0 channel 1
[     1.000000] ohci0 at pci0 dev 19 function 0: Acer Labs M5237 USB
1.1 Host Controller (rev. 0x03)
[     1.000000] ohci0: interrupting at isa irq 10
[     1.000000] ohci0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
[     1.000000] usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
[     1.000000] isa0 at sio0
[     1.000000] com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, 16-byte FIFO
[     1.000000] com0: console
[     1.000000] com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, 16-byte FIFO
[     1.000000] pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
[     1.000000] attimer0 at isa0 port 0x40-0x43
[     1.000000] pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
[     1.000000] spkr0 at pcppi0: PC Speaker
[     1.000000] wsbell at spkr0 not configured
[     1.000000] midi0 at pcppi0: PC speaker
[     1.000000] isabeep0 at pcppi0
[     1.000000] fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
[     1.000000] mcclock0 at isa0 port 0x70-0x71: mc146818 compatible
time-of-day clock
[     1.000000] attimer0: attached to pcppi0
[     1.000000] tsp1 at tsc0
[     1.000000] pci1 at tsp1 bus 0
[     1.000000] pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line,
rd/mult, wr/inv ok
[     1.000000] isp0 at pci1 dev 1 function 0: QLogic 1020 Fast Wide SCSI HBA
[     1.000000] isp0: interrupting at dec 6600 irq 24
[     1.000000] tlp0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0: DECchip 21143 Ethernet, pass 3.0
[     1.000000] tlp0: interrupting at dec 6600 irq 28
[     1.000000] tlp0: DEC DE500-BA, Ethernet address 08:00:2b:c5:43:9a
[     1.000000] tlp0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
[     1.000000] Emulex LP9000 FibreChannel Adapter (Fiber Channel
serial bus, revision 0x01) at pci1 dev 3 function 0 not configured
[     1.000000] vga0 at pci1 dev 5 function 0: Chips and Technologies
65550 (rev. 0xc6)
[     1.000000] wsdisplay1 at vga0 kbdmux 1
[     1.000000] wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay1
[     1.000000] drm at vga0 not configured
[     1.000000] ppb0 at pci1 dev 6 function 0: Intel
S21152BA,S21154AE/BE PCI-PCI Bridge (rev. 0x00)
[     1.000000] pci2 at ppb0 bus 2
[     1.000000] pci2: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
[     1.000000] fxp0 at pci2 dev 4 function 0: i82559 Ethernet (rev. 0x08)
[     1.000000] fxp0: interrupting at dec 6600 irq 44
[     1.000000] fxp0: Ethernet address 00:0b:cd:f4:cf:08
[     1.000000] inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 4
[     1.000000] inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
[     1.000000] fxp1 at pci2 dev 5 function 0: i82559 Ethernet (rev. 0x08)
[     1.000000] fxp1: interrupting at dec 6600 irq 45
[     1.000000] fxp1: Ethernet address 00:0b:cd:f4:cf:09
[     1.000000] inphy1 at fxp1 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 4
[     1.000000] inphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
[     1.000000] tsciic0 at tsc0
[     1.000000] iic0 at tsciic0: I2C bus
[     1.000000] stray isa irq 10
[     1.000000] stray isa irq 10
[     1.000000] stray isa irq 10
[     1.000000] stray isa irq 10
[     1.000000] stray isa irq 10; stopped logging
[     1.000000] WARNING: system needs entropy for security; see entropy(7)
[     1.000000] timecounter: Timecounter "PCC" frequency 666638592 Hz
quality 1000
[     1.000207] timecounter: Timecounter "clockinterrupt" frequency
1024 Hz quality 0
[     2.229696] scsibus1 at isp0: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
[     2.295148] uhub0 at usb0: NetBSD (0x0000) OHCI root hub (0x0000),
class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
[     2.402548] uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
[     2.402548] scsibus1: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
[     2.475793] scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
[     2.686731] atapibus0 at atabus0: 2 targets
[     3.235562] entropy: best effort
[     4.546111] fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
[     5.137915] sd0 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <COMPAQ, BD30088279,
HPB4> disk fixed
[     5.229740] sd0: 279 GB, 90774 cyl, 8 head, 806 sec, 512
bytes/sect x 585937500 sectors
[     5.324439] sd0: sync (12.50ns offset 63), 16-bit (160.000MB/s)
transfers, tagged queueing
[    12.598875] sd1 at scsibus1 target 1 lun 0: <FUJITSU, MAS3184NC,
5B08> disk fixed
[    12.687743] sd1: 17366 MB, 27206 cyl, 2 head, 653 sec, 512
bytes/sect x 35566478 sectors
[    12.784423] sd1: sync (50.00ns offset 8), 16-bit (40.000MB/s)
transfers, tagged queueing
[    33.463213] root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
[    33.517900] root file system type: ffs
[    33.565752] kern.module.path=/stand/alpha/10.1/modules
Mounting all file systems...
Clearing temporary files.
Updating fontconfig cache: done.
Checking quotas: done.
Setting securelevel: kern.securelevel: 0 -> 1
swapctl: setting dump device to /dev/sd0b
Starting virecover.
Checking for core dump...
savecore: no core dump
Starting local daemons:.
Updating motd.
Starting ntpd.
Starting sshd.
Starting postfix.
postfix/postlog: starting the Postfix mail system
Starting inetd.
Starting cron.
Mon Feb 16 16:04:23 CET 2026

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