Subject: NetBSD on Powerbook 145/SCSI Problems
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: The Great Mr. Kurtz <davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/14/1995 14:21:44
Sorry about the full sig last time.  This system is really weird.  
(Comet)  To all who've been helping with the SCSI probs, I took the drive 
and patched it into a IIsi and everything's cool.  No problems at all 
(except an occasional problem with the free space, and an initial problem 
with the superblock).  The superblock problem still occurred.  The 
difference is that the SCSI driver didn't cause a magic number error when 
it marked the partition as clean.  (The damage occurred at that point on 
the PB145.)  I think I've found the problem on the PowerBook, too.  The 
system says that it has no ROM vectors for this system whenever it boots 
on the PowerBook.  It said PowerBook style ROMs, I believe, as it should 
have.  I dunno.  It's working.  That's what matters.  Now I've just got 
to figure out this ethernet card.

Weird thing, though.  Whenever the IIsi had the drive connected through 
the SCSI ethernet box, it refused to recognize the drive and said there 
was no boot partition.  Ouch!  I can understand not recognizing the card 
-- but the hard drive!?!  Scary thought.  Anyway, booting w/o the SCSI 
box is just fine.  I tried it *several* times to make sure everything was 
okay.  I'm hoping to swap the SCSI box with a card soon.  I'm hoping the 
card isn't a SONIC based card.  If it is, I'll be waiting for SONIC *and* 
FPE.  Not good, huh.  At least it runs, though.

Later,

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