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Date:      Wed, 25 Mar 1998 01:04:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To:        Manfred Antar <root@mantar.slip.netcom.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: dpt boot disk
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980325010415.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980324232120.3943A-100000@mantar.slip.netcom.com>

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On 25-Mar-98 Manfred Antar wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 25-Mar-98 Manfred Antar wrote:
>> > Is there a boot floppy available with the dpt adapter code.
>> 
>> Yup.  Roam ftp://sendero.simon-shapiro.org/FreeBSD/*/floppies.
>> I'll have a 2.2.6 image there by tomorrow.  There are few 3.0-current,
>> with
>> an update to today's/yesterday's current by tomorrow night.
>> 
>> Simon
>> 
>> 
> Great.
> I noticed some weirdness with todays current and my dpt controller
> It might have something to do with the VM86 changes. I could not
> do a complete dump,the exabyte would flash alot and the scsi bus would
> hang and i'd have to reboot. I'm going to try  a kernel wihout VM86
> and see if that makes a difference. Yesterdays kernel works fine.
> Manfred

I may be behind here.  What has VM86 got to do with the HBA, SCSI bus
hanging?  In the DPT, the Unix kernel has no access to the SCSI bus.  The
only thing I can think of is confusing the Exabyte with rubbish, until it
sticks it to the bus.  I'd love to hear other, more scientific explanations.

Simon


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