> Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 08:50:55 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Trent McNair <trent@rmci.net>

> A while back I attempted to install 1.1 on my scsi drive but the 
> installation would corrupt my drive unless I set si_options 0.  I 
> recently got a new drive (st1239n) and tried again to set things up (with 
> the new patch). Again I corrupted my drive and had to use sunos to format it.
> It does work with si_options 0 but it is really slow.

There was a work-around for a hardware problem with the DMA engine
in the SCSI interface, and I thought that was in 1.1 patch 1...

What version does the kernel say when it starts up?

> My question is this - Is this a problem specific to the 3/50 (prom 2.3, 
> in my case)????  I would _really_ like to have NetBSD on this machine 
> rather than sunos 4.1 that I'm currently running.
> 
> Also the new netboot does not work on my machine (I am netbooting from 
> linux 1.2.8).

Does it identify itself as netboot 1.2c?

Gordon