On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 02:31:29 -0800  Jonathan Stone wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 20:37:19 +1100,
>  Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au> replies:
> 
> >I booted up a 3100 earlier today with two RZ23L's from the ecoff version
> >of the same kernel you used without any problems.  Unfortunately, I
> >don't have any non-DEC disks to test this.
> 
> >Michael, anything you changed recently with the sii stuff that could have
> >affected this?
> 
> Michael didnd't change the sii driver at all. He just added a line to
> rz.c to fix a bogus non-initialization in the code I cut-and-pasted
> together.  I somehow forgot to initialize the size field of the SCSI
> mode-sense command.  (It worked okay on the asc because the length was
> set to 10 by the preceding READ_CAPACITY command, and most drives were
> apparently happy with the too-long command. The sii driver reported a
> phase error and gave up. I remembered some sloppyness about the SCSI
> command size which helped steer Michael right to the problem.)

Apologies to Michael.  A quick look now turned up this:

	From: mhitch@lightning.oscs.montana.edu (Michael L. Hitch)
	To: maximum entropy <entropy@zippy.bernstein.com>, port-pmax@NetBSD.ORG
	Subject: Re: 2100 boot
	Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 16:44:19 -0700
	Message-Id: <9711122344.AA12833@lightning.oscs.montana.edu>
	In-Reply-To: maximum entropy's message of Nov 12,  6:36pm

	On Nov 12,  6:36pm, maximum entropy wrote:
	> I'm trying to boot a 2100.  I dropped 1.3_ALPHA nfsnetbsd.ecoff kernel
	> into the tftp directory on a server, and set up the bootptab.  I then
	> boot with "boot -f tftp()netbsd" and all goes fine until the kernel
	> starts probing the local disk:
	> 
	> Beginning old-style SCSI device autoconfiguration
	> sii0: device 0: cmd 1a: command data not all sent (10) 1
	> [machine hangs]

	  Boy, are you lucky.  I have just tracked down this bug and just now
	  booted a kernel with the fix.  I can make a fixed kernel available to you
	  if you want to try it out.

	  Michael

When I sent the last message, I just remembered "Michael" and "sii".

Simon.