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

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.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.
> 
> Thanks anyways.

Ok, I just took a look at that might be going on.

The reason OpenBSD’s “qlw" driver is working for you is because it, by default, ignores unknown responses and prints no diagnostics when it encounters them, whereas the NetBSD driver is detecting some sort of unexpected condition and reporting it.

I’ll see if I can figure out what the unexpected 0x09 (“RQSTYPE_A64”) means later tonight.  Alas, no comments for those entry types in the deriver’s header files:

#define RQSTYPE_A64             0x09
#define RQSTYPE_A64_CONT        0x0a

-- thorpej