In message <Marcel-1.53-0103214849-b49+YEw@kjetilbt.eunet.no> you wrote:

> In <URL:news:local.netbsd.port-arm32> on Mon 27 Dec, Carl Hetherington wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > My apologies if this is a FAQ; I am a brand-new user of NetBSD/arm32 and I
> > haven't found any clues to my problem yet...
> 
> Power-tec used to be an FAQ, but this problem is new.

OK.

> > Basically I have installed BSD 1.4 using a rather round-about route; I
> > couldn't get the 1.4 install to work so instead I set things up using an old
> > 1.3 beta CD I found and then copied the 1.4 sets into the RiscBSD partition.
> > This is all on the internal IDE drive of a Risc PC with StrongARM.
> > 
> > It all boots up fine and works when my Powertec SCSI-3 card is physically
> > removed from the machine, but when its installed NetBSD fails to boot.  The
> > kernel goes through printing its messages about what hardware is installed,
> > prints a line about SCSI and then hangs.  There is a single hard disc
> > connected to the SCSI card.
> 
> You could try the latest snapshot from last year (1999). That seems to
> work fine with my Power-tec SCSI-2 (v1.01), but I don't think that will
> work either.
> 
> The SCSI-3 card is substantially different from the SCSI-2 card, and so
> far noone has reported to have made a new driver that works with this
> card.

Hmmm.
 
> So, anyone wants to pick up this thread?

I'd love to but I wouldn't have a hope :-(

> 
> > I don't need to actually access the SCSI drive under NetBSD, I'd just like to
> > be able to boot it without removing the card.  Any suggestions?
> 
> Then you can use the podule.disable=0 or whatever in the Extra Options
> field. I don't remember the details, but that may be in the FAQ or
> somewhere.

Oh, this sounds useful.  I hadn't found any details of these options.

> 
> If that does not work, then you can make your own kernel and just comment
> out the ptsc driver from the config file.

This is what I did in the end, it works fine.

Thanks for your help.
Carl