Subject: Re: Serious SCSI-problems
To: Adolf Hohl <adolf@akfi1.akaflieg.uni-karlsruhe.de>
From: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 07/21/1999 10:08:04 
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Adolf Hohl wrote:

> I've serious scsi-problems on my 3max.
> 
> NetBSD 1.4 (GENERIC) #32: Fri May  7 19:15:34 EST 1999
>     root@mona:/usr/src/sys/arch/pmax/compile/GENERIC
> DECstation 5000/200 (3MAX)
...
> boot device: rz0
> root on rz0a dumps on rz0b
> root file system type: ffs
> asc_get_status: cmdreg 11, fifo cnt 7
> rz0: Illegal request
> asc_get_status: cmdreg 11, fifo cnt 7
> rz0: Illegal request
> asc_get_status: cmdreg 11, fifo cnt 7
> rz0: Illegal request
> and so on, ....
> 
> Does anybody know the reason for this errors? I tried some RZ57 disks on
> another
> 3max and other cables and terminators without any changes.

  I sort of know the reason, and it should be fixed in 1.4.1.  There might
be a pre-1.4.1 kernel out on ftp.netbsd.org.

Michael

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Michael L. Hitch			osymh@montana.edu
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA
ion to /usr/X11R6/bin/X in the Xservers entry for :0 on the 3100 will pop up a login widget from the remote machine, and even let me enter my username and password, but the session dies shortly thereafter. (With some remote hosts it will die even before I can enter anything.) 2) I can't get the 3000/300 to pop up a chooser with any valid hosts listed. When using "-indirect AlphaBox" (where "AlphaBox" is the 3000/300) I get a chooser displayed, but all it has listed is "list" in the hosts listing. Using "-indirect DU4AlphaBox" to point, instead, to a different alpha running Digital Unix 4.0D, pops up a chooser (same look 'n' feel) except valid hosts are listed. Similarly, "-indirect AIXbox" to an AIX box running CDE pops up a CDE-style chooser with correct hosts. If I don't run xdm on the 3100, and, instead log in as root and manually start X via "/usr/X11R6/bin/X -indirect AIXbox" or "/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query AlphaBox" it works as I want (with a chooser in the former case, and a dedicated X session to the 3000/300 in the latter), except a) it's a hassle to do it this way, and, b) I can't start an X session on the 3100 itself. Am I missing something obvious, here? All my xdm config files are 1.4 out-of-the-box, except for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers: on the 3000/300 everything is commented out (as it is headless), and on the 3100, X on :0 has the "-indirect" option. Xdm is enabled on the 3000/300 and was on the 3100. (It's now disabled, and I'm running X manually right now, so I can get something closer to what I want that works.) I get the same results whether on the 3100 I'm using kdm or the xdm that comes with NetBSD/pmax 1.4 (except kdm also does some logging via syslog). The most common error in /var/log/xdm on both the 3100 and 3000/300 is of the form: xdm error (pid 6715): fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) xdm error (pid 6719): fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) xdm error (pid 6723): fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) xdm error (pid 6727): fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) xdm error (pid 6731): fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) xdm error (pid 6735): fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) xdm error (pid 6739): fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) xdm error (pid 6743): fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) xdm error (pid 6747): fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) [[etc.]] although several of the following also appeared in /var/log/messages on the 3100: Jul 20 17:54:00 3100 kdm[274]: WARNING: keyboard on display :0 could not be secured Jul 20 17:54:11 3100 kdm[282]: WARNING: keyboard on display :0 could not be secured [[etc.]] Has anyone got a working chooser list on either pmax or alpha and a working xdm (w/XDMCP)? Cheers, Paul. e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu "I don't live today; maybe tomorrow..." --- James Marshall Hendrix