Re: NetBSD 1.1 & Fastlane - it works (sort of)

["Matthias Scheler" <tron%sandra.owl.de@localhost>]

    Hi Torfinn,

you wrote in <1159.6804T1431T865%icenet.no@localhost>:
> >Not true. On my friends A4000 we were able to use both harddisks(Quantum
> >LPS 105S and 525S). And his and mine CD-ROM (both Toshibas) always
> >worked
> >fine.
> 
> Does your friend have a Cybervision CV64 (or any other Z3 card)?
> Maybe that is the difference?

Yes, he has. But that doesn't matter. The Z3 Fastlane driver has a buggy
state machine that's all. The existence of any other board has no
influence on that problem. It just matters what kind of SCSI devices you
have.

> Well, I couldn't get HDToolBox to set that field correctly even *one* time.
> I would *like* to to ignore the messages, but newfs refused to work with the
> disk no matter what I tried.

What did "newfs" say?

> >This can be archived much easier by using "loadbsd -i FF".
> 
> I believed that was the option for disabling sync. transfers, not
> reselect?

Ooops, you are correct, my mistake.

-- 
Matthias Scheler
tron%sandra.owl.de@localhost