You need to use a kernel compiled to use PIO rather than DMA
	for the SCSI interface. One is available from Brian Chase
	at

	http://world.std.com/~bdc/projects/vaxen/index.html

		David/absolute

  ... and so am I, maybe its the other way round, I can't seem to decide ...

On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:

> OK, I have NetBSD up over NFS, and when I make an attempt t
> disklabel -w /dev/rsd0c rodime (Rodime is the disktab entry I created or
> the drives, from info gathered during the NetBSD boot)
> it gives me lots of "DMA Timeout" messages.  It happens on both drives.
> How do I get rid of that?
> 
> Just so you all know, I gave up on the 2000 for now (Both HDD's seem to be toast) and the machine is a MicroVAX 3100 model something, with 4M of ram and 2
> SCSI harddisks, set to Unit 3 on controllers A and B.  They're 210Meg devices.
> Non-DEC, but they work fine, I booted VMS from them.
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