On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Michael L. Hitch wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, NetBSD Bob wrote:
> 
> > OK, I guess I am bit by the 5000/200 glitch on the asc_intr thing, finally.
> > I was starting a compile last night and loading up some fresh sources, and
> > it died with a gross error on 1.4P.  Reloaded 1.4.2A and it worked fine.
> > Maybe it is a 5000/200 thing.  Drat!  I was rather getting used to 1/4
> > inch high characters in rcons on the PMAG-C card under 1.4P.  The tiny
> > print on the PMAG-BA card on the VR297 is.... small.  Anyway.  Is there
> > any kind of workaround or fix for the 5000/200 machines or should I just
> > wait until a recent snapshot gets posted and try that?  Any insights into
> > what is going on and possible fixes are appreciated.
> 
>   The "gross" error is not good - I don't remember at the moment what it
> indicates, other than some invalid sequence seen by the 53c94 chip.
> 
>   I'd guess that someone has made some kind of change in the ASC driver
> that broke on the 5000/200.  I haven't seen any problems on a 5000/25
> recently, but that would not have been a very recent kernel.  I've also
> not seen this on a 5000/150 or 5000/260, but then I haven't been using the
> ASC driver on them very much, and also haven't kept up on the latest
> kernel on those systems either.
> 
>   The 5000/200 is still sitting on the floor in the closet behind me
> waiting a place to get connected back up.  If I can ever get my pmax
> development going again, and get the 5000/200 connected up, I can probably
> figure out what the problem is.
> 
> > p.s.  I picked up a couple of 5 gig HP 2490A drives, today in surplus.
> >       Anyone know of any problems using them on DS5000/200 hardware?
> 
>   The should work, but I can't make any guarentees.  I've been using a
> Seagate 4BG Barracuda on a 5000/25 without any problems (of course, it's
> been using the MI ncr53c9x driver most of the time).
> 
> --
> Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
> Computer Consultant
> Information Technology Center
> Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA
> 
> 


Whats the status of the MI driver? I'd like to connect a SCSI scanner and
CDRW drive to my 5000/133, but as far as I can tell they are not supported
by the ASC driver...

Peter Wallace