Re: GVP SCSI controller and Blizzard 2060 side by syde?

[is%beverly.rhein.de@localhost (Ignatios Souvatzis)]

Hi Werther,

>    Hello, fellow NetBSD'ers!
> 
> I've actually managed to get my hands on a Blizzard 2060 board (it's
> just a couple of hours away) and, since I know the on-board SCSI
> controller isn't supported by 1.2, it's de-lurking time for me. <g>
> 
> I also have an old-ish GVP SCSI controller (the model with up to 8MB
> 16bit RAM and Quantum hard disk, mind you) and I'd like to know if
> there's any chance to use this controller instead.  That is, disable
> the Blizzard 2060 one and tell NetBSD to use GVP's one.
> 
> Is this possible?  Do I need to build a different kernel?

Yes. No. GENERIC should work.
 
> I'm asking because so far I've been using a GVP-030 combo along the
> GVP SCSI controller (RAM-wise), but any attempt to use the other
> controller (i.e., the one NOT on the accelerator board) has been
> fruitless.  Still, this was with 1.0 and 1.1 -- never tried anything
> like that with 1.2, though.

This should have worked... can you send us please the output of
"showconfig" (on the AmigaOS side) and "dmesg" (from NetBSD)?

Regards,
        Ignatios Souvatzis
        Ignatios Souvatzis