Ragge has resolved the problem with a better patch.  It is in the cvs now.
Use his patch rather than my patch (unless you want to corrupt your drives
on the internal bus).
johnh...

On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Andrew Gillham wrote:

> Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 02:43:45 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
> To: John Hayward <John.C.Hayward@wheaton.edu>
> Cc: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>,
>      Matthias Buelow <token@cip.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>,
>      port-vax@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: 1.5_ALPHA2 on VS3100/m30 and external SCSI
> 
> John Hayward writes:
> > I have built an ALPHA2 source kernel with the one line
> > >                sc->ncr_off = DMASIZE
> > in ncr.c removed.
> > I am able to label the disk and do a newfs without the label disappearing
> > or claiming the disk is read only.
> > 
> > My machine is a VS3100/M10 as far as I can determine.
> > 
> > I'd like to know if this is particular to the fix works with other models
> > of VS3100.
> 
> I'll try to test mine tomorrow.  Thanks!
> 
> -Andrew
>