Re: VS3100M76 - current

[Holm Tiffe <holm%freibergnet.de@localhost>]

Johnny Billquist wrote:

> On 2014-05-22 15:54, Holm Tiffe wrote:
> >Johnny Billquist wrote:
> >
> >>On 2014-05-22 15:26, Holm Tiffe wrote:
> >>>Holm Tiffe wrote:
> >>>
> >>>NetBSD 1.5.3 is running flawlessly so far and I'm currently unpacking the
> >>>sets to the Quantum Disk.
> >>>
> >>>Somewhere between that 1.5.3 and 1.6.2 the VS3100 has died...
> >>
> >>Which definitely rules out any hardware issues. As it would seem the
> >>problems also are not universal, it would seem to be some specific
> >>hardware in your machine. And since the problem happens when working
> >>with the disk, the SCSI subsystem is the prime suspect.
> >>
> >>Afraid I can't help much in there. I have not played with that code
> >>much, and I also don't have a matching machine to reproduce the problem.
> >>
> >>I hope someone else have a similar machine on which to reproduce and fix
> >>this.
> >>
> >>    Johnny
> >
> >
> >Yes, this is definitve not easy to find a such long lasting bug.
> >Even if I can draw 1.5.3 Sources out of the CVS (can I?) I think
> >it wouldn't be possible to crossbuild the entire "world" on my PC.
> 
> Not sure if cross-builds had been made possible yet back then.
> But yes, you can definitely get the sources out of cvs. That is what cvs 
> is for.
> 
> >First I'll try to install fully that 1.5.3 to the disk (still running)
> >and verify if it is behaving correctly (kernel build?).
> >Maybe before that I'll put the disk in the M76 to look if it goes
> >identically there.
> 
> Since you've observed the same problems on that machine, odds are that 
> 1.5.3 will also work fine on that machine.


..likely. At the moment I'm fighting with bootstrap and disklabel ...
> 
> >Next thing would be NEtbooting and teht the folowing available releases
> >and to find out where it stops.
> >Anyone knows what the kernel tries next after putting out this "root file
> >system is ffs" (or so?). That is where 1.6.2 simply halts...
> 
> I seem to remember that the main reason if it stops there is if you do 
> not have /dev populated.
> 
>       Johnny

Hmm, it halts wenn booting from the vax.iso from NetBSD.org. Not sure if
/dev is populated properly there :-))

Regards,

Holm

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