Re: NetBSD/vax

[Dave McGuire <mcguire%neurotica.com@localhost>]

On 3/22/20 5:08 PM, Anders Magnusson wrote:
>>> I have a fast system already setup for cross-compiling netbsd and I can
>>> netboot the vaxstation easily, I will try the patch in a few hours,
>>> maybe less, right now I'm also trying to resurrect the power supply of
>>> my 3100m76 so I can test it on another system with the ncr 5380
>>> controller
>>> Will report ASAP.
>> Got the vaxstation 3100m76 up and running, with a standard netbsd-9 or
>> -current kernel it has the same kernel panic when probing the scsi bus,
>> with the patch everything is fine and not only the system will boot
>> without problem but was able to complete an installation of netbsd-9,
>> standard installation with sysinst, no manual intervention required, the
>> system is working good.
> Great!  Thanks for your help!
>> I'm tempeted to try on my microvax 3100m30 (ka45) and also on a
>> vaxstation 2000 (ka410), to see if this two system is also affected by
>> that bug.
>>
> The m30 is affected, but the VS2k have a different SCSI chip so it is
> not affected.

  Huh?  The VS2000/MV2000 have an NCR 5380.

              -Dave


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