Hi all,

I've recently had the luck to obtain a Sun4/25 ELC Sparc machine. Given
the well known hassle of getting a Sun to learn to resolve hostnames, and
because my Sun3/60 already runs NetBSD, I wanted to install that on my
Sparc, too.

Alas, for some reason my ELC won't work with SCSI. I've read a few comments
on that from others here, but also know of people running it for 8 months
straight. So I'd like to know just where the SCSI-part of the port is at
right now.

Is it just bad luck of the draw, that my ELC has a SCSI-chip that needs
a workaround? Or is something strange with both the Maxtor 380M and Rodime
100M that NetBSD doesn't understand?

The errors are DMA-errors, SCSI-phase-errors, and FIFO-errors. Alas I do
not have the diskspace, nor experience, to be of much help in tracking down
this problem. But if you're interested, I can make logs of the console-
output with all the errors. Didn't want to flood the mailing-list with it
on my first posting, though. I could lift the mainboard from the Sparc, too,
to check the version-number on that Emulex-chip, too, if you'd be interested.

I've run NetBSD diskless from the Sun3/60-NetBSD-machine a few times, but
alas SCSI on the 3/60 won't do DMA very well, too, and is slow... The
rest of NetBSD seems to work fine on the Sparc, though, my compliments on that.

Have fun with the hacking, Paul.
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