Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Roger Ivie wrote:
>
>> I'm having a bit of fun with a 3100/30 and thought I'd share the wealth.
>> I've installed the 1.4.1 preview snapshot (see below), which is the first
>> time I've attempted NetBSD on a 3100. The kernel hangs when it attempts to
>> probe the SCSI bus containing a disk (I know this because I've moved the
>> disk between the busses and it follows the disk). I eventually see the
>> message "ncr0: no REQ for next phase, abort". The disk involved is an
>> RZ56 from which I am attempting to boot using the "boot rom()netbsd -d"
>> trick. I do have other disks I can attempt if you folks think the RZ56
>> is the problem. Perhaps I should try a different kernel?
>
>Just a couple of shots in the dark here, but does the drive show up okay
> when you run a "show dev" from the VAX prom prompt ">>>"?  

Yes, the drive shows up OK. I mean, I was able to load the bootstrap and
the kernel from it after all.

> You may want to
> also verify that the drive's id doesn't conflict with that of the SCSI
> controller (which I've seen set sometimes to 6 or 7). 

I've moved the drive's setting around to rule this out. Originally it was 
0, now it's 1.

> If you're using the 1.4 miniroot.fs, then that would most likely be the
> source of you problem.  That miniroot doesn't contain a kernel with the
> disconnect hack to make PIO SCSI support happy.

The kernel I'm using is the 1.4.1-GENERIC kernel from the pre-1.4.1
kern.tgz set.

Roger Ivie
ivie@cc.usu.edu