On Thu 22 Apr, Leo Smiers wrote:
> On Thu 22 Apr, Sebastian Maus wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Leo Smiers wrote:
> > > I have a QIC tape drive and a CD-Rom player attached to the Connect32 card. 
> > > And this is what I have experienced sofar:
> > > Both devices are detected by the driver and bound to the scsi bus. I can 
> > > rewind and retension a tape using the mt commands (mt -f /dev/rs0 rewind),
> > > but when I try to access a tar-file 'tar' get stuck. Also when I try to mount
> > > the cdrom 'mount' get stuck. As a result of this (sometimes) netbsd becomes
> > > instable.
> > I think that it would be of interest what kernel you use. I didn't even
> 
> I use an 1.4 ALPHA kernel last supped at 14 april.
> 
> > get that far with 1.3-current kernels as they stopped while detecting the
> > Connect32 podule.
> > But contrary to others, I didn't have any serious problem accessing my
> > SCSI CDROM via the Connect32 with the September 8 VOYAGER-SCSI-TEST
> > kernel. I didn't use any more complicated hardware, though, like streamers
> > etc.
> 
> I have never tried that kernel 8-) and I think it is now too late with
> because of all the 1.4 binaries I have. But I am downloading this kernel
> now and will try it any way.

As expected the VOYAGER-SCSI-TEST kernel refused to work with the 1.4 ALPHA
snapshot.

> 
> > In this respect I would also be interested in whether the Connect32 driver
> > code has changed in recent kernels (i.e. 1.4 ones, modified the way the
> > VOYAGER-SCSI-TEST kernel was) or not and whether recent changes affect the
> > SCSI interface code.
> > 
> > Still trying to set up a Connect32-SCSI-system running NetBSD/arm32,
> >              -Sebastian-
> 
> Leo
> 

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Leo Smiers
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