Are these SCSI problems specific to the mentioned SCSI devices or is the
ARM32 port problematic with other SCSI devices too. I refer to my continuing
problem with the ADAPTEC AHA 2940UW

Thanks
David

-----Original Message-----
From: Sebastian Maus <maus@student.physik.uni-mainz.de>
To: Jan-Uwe.Finck@bigfoot.de <Jan-Uwe.Finck@bigfoot.de>
Cc: ARM32 <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: Anybody running SCSI under RiscPC ?


>On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Jan-Uwe Finck wrote:
>> Does anybody do this succesfully, at least somehow ?
>Not really "successfully", but yes. It's working. On my RISCPC with a
>Connect32. Took me ages.
>
>> I just wonder, because I still would like to install NetBSD, although
>> since several month there's no support for the Connect32-SCSI-driver,
>> at least not in the install-kernels..
>Do these kernels boot on a Connect32-equipped system? --
>http://people.a2000.nl/lsmiers/netbsd/
>(Leo Smiers) has a 1.4 kernel that actually allows reading slowly from
>many devices connected to a Connect32 podule. It boots (:-)). Installing
>the 1.4 sets is a different matter. I could only set up the system by
>installing NetBSD on the internal IDE bus disc and booting RISC OS off the
>SCSI discs. Creation the filesystem structure was done by a 1.3 INSTALL
>kernel with the SCSI podule removed from the system (as it wouldn't boot
>when it's fitted). Then I booted the above mentioned kernel and installed
>the 1.4 sets from my SCSI CDROM device. It wasn't as easy as it seems here
>as you definitely want/need a 1.4 gunzip/tar binary set to install the
>sets with the 1.4 kernel.
>
>> Anybody out there who is working with that ?
>I don't know.
>There seem to be many fixes around to the Connect32 problem. None of them
>seems to have been merged into the sources. 13 months ago a SCSI-TEST
>kernel has been on ftp.netbsd.org that quite well supported the Connect32.
>
>> Or am I the only one who wishes to use that ?
>No, and no.
>
>Gruesse, regards,
>             -Sebastian-
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