Hi there... well, after posting my question about the aic6360 irq 
setting, I compiled a kernel with the correct irq and put it on a boot 
floppy. Then I took the kernel floppy, the inst11 floppy, and my hard 
disk (Quantum Capella 2.1GB) over to my friend's place, since I wanted to 
show him some stuff on my NetBSD partition. Unfortunately, it didn't 
work. Sometimes the drive would be probed properly, other times, I'd get 
a bogus disk at LUN 6, and sometimes, I'd get some sort of SCSI illegal 
request error. I could usually mount the drive, but "ls" would show weird 
things... strange filenames, huge terabyte-long files, directories 
turning into named pipes... and after a while, the system would lock up 
solid. Trying to dd more than about 5K from the drive (dd if=/dev/rsd0d 
of=/dev/null count=10) would also lock the system.

So, I was wondering if anyone had gotten the Adaptec AVA-1515 to work 
under NetBSD... my drive worked just fine on his machine under DOS and 
Linux, so I don't think there were any cabling or termination problems. 
Looking at aic6360.c, I notice aic_find assumes a 20MHz clock, which 
gives a 10MB/s max synchronous transfer rate. However, the AVA-1515 
doesn't support fast SCSI-II; it'll only do 5MB/s. Could this be a problem?

FYI, he's got an Iomega Zip drive hooked up to the card too, but we tried 
taking it out of the scsi chain to see if it'd make any difference, and 
it didn't. Also, netbsd seemed to almost get along with the Zip... I was 
able to dd a couple of megs off of it. However, after doing that 3 or 4 
times, I started getting errors from the aic driver (don't remember the 
message). A reboot was required to get the drive working again (when it 
was in the messed up state, the eject button wouldn't work). I don't 
believe the Zip supports synchronous transfers, btw.

Also, is it possible for NetBSD to detect the card's IRQ setting? Linux 
seems to be able to do it :)

Any help would be appreciated, although since I'm back at home now and my
friend is about 1500 miles away, I probably won't be able to try any 
suggestions. I'm curious as to why it didn't work though :) Thanks!
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