Subject: Re: Hardware questions (Offtopic)
To: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
From: Adam Fritzler <afritz@iname.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/17/1998 03:13:33
Ok, the PIO one works. Is that documentated somewhere?
Thanks,
Adam
On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Brian D Chase wrote:
>
> On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Adam Fritzler wrote:
>
> > One more thing, I netbooted off another machine. Everything boots fine,
> > but I can't write disklabels to the SCSI hard drives. When I do a
> > 'disklabel -w ...' it just says 'sd0: no disklabel' and stops without
> > doing a thing! Any advise or do I have to use a TK50 tape and edlabel?
>
> Do you know if you are using the kernel with the PIO mode SCSI mods, or
> the standard kernel with DMA support? The SCSI driver's is relatively
> broken on the VS3100/M30/M38/M40/M48. But it seems to work if forced into
> Programmed I/O mode. The transfer rates are an abysmal 30K/sec but it
> does work.
>
> The 1.2G and 1.3_ALPHA kernels with the appropriate PIO mods are available
> at http://world.std.com/~bdc/projects/vaxen/netboot/
>
> -brian.
> ---
> Brian "JARAI" Chase | http://world.std.com/~bdc/ | VAXZilla LIVES!!!
>
>
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Adam Fritzler
afritz@iname.com
http://www.afritz.base.org
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