Good Day,

I also have an expansion unit for my VS3100/M48, 20 MB memory, that has 
RZ56 drives installed in it.  1.4.1 boots fine from the internal RZ23's 
without the RZ56's, but gives the same error reported here for ncr1 if they 
are connected.  Yes, "sho dev" acks the drives and in fact, VMS happily 
boots off of one of the drives as currently configured.  There are no SCSI 
numbering conflicts.

In scanning the archives, I notice that sometime back it was suggested that 
maybe this (RZ56's "breaking" the SCSI code) was a sync/async communication 
problem.  I also noticed that the RZ56 comes up frequently as a non-player 
when SCSI problems are discussed.  Has this issue been resolved?  If so, 
what's the work around?  If not, what kind of debugging can I do to assist 
in isolating the problem.

Also, maybe related but I'm not sure, the internal "almost a SCSI" RRD40 CD 
reader is not recognized at boottime either, although it doesn't keep the 
system from coming up.  It is on ncr0 @ device 0.  Is this a known 
issue?  Again, the drive shows up in "sho dev" and is useable from VMS.

Thanks in advance for any help.

--
Jon Grubbs
jgrubbs@megsinet.net


At 01:54 AM 10/5/99 +0200, Matthias Bauer wrote:
>Hi,
>got a Vaxstation 3400 M38 running with NetBSD 1.4.1 booting from
>the net with / and everything over NFS, works fine. Got a RZ5X-F3 Storage
>Expansion which the bootmonitor detects, but NetBSD doesn't (REQ timeout
>on scsi1), but that's not the main problem. I would like to install at least
>/bin, /sbin and /etc on the internal disk (100 Mb), but wasn't able
>to find/build the necessary files in /usr/mdec, and could not find
>documentation for that. Could somebody help me there?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Matthias