Subject: Re: Strange misbehaviour of ahc driver/scsi code: doesn't find disks!
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@panix.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/19/1996 10:40:03
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996 12:46:29 -0500 (EST) 
 Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@panix.com> wrote:

 > I have the ahc, scsibus, and sd lines in the config file wildcarded.  The
 > three 7880 chips are probed fine; ahc0 at pci0, ahc1 and ahc2 at pci1,
 > which is on ppb0 on pci0.  The driver prints out a line of the form
 > "scsibus0: 8 targets" and goes no further -- that is, the machine comes up
 > fine, but the disks and cdrom are not probed or attached and I can't use
 > them.

Make sure you have a Really Up To Date scsiconf.c... I forgot to bzero()
a chunk of memory after malloc()ing it, but didn't notice, becuase my
machines worked fine.  Charles checked in a fix shortly thereafter.

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