Re: I did a test on a DEC AlphaStation 600 and the SCSI driver seems borked

On 2/16/26 10:21 AM, Magnus Lindholm wrote:
>>>> On Feb 15, 2026, at 7:33 PM, Dennis Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Given what you say about the NetBSD SCSI subsystem this pretty much
>>>> means OpenBSD works just fine out of the box and NetBSD it no longer
>>>> viable at all.  At least not on this old museum piece hardware.
>>>
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I was following this thread and decided to fire up my ES40 which has
> NetBSD on one of the drives. Below is my boot message. I have
> a Qlogic ISP controller and a drive attached to it (sd1) seems to work
> fine here. I'm seeing some other issues on the ES40 though, but the
> ISP driver seems to work. (see below)
> 
> Regards Magnus
> 


This looks to be a different SCSI controller type :

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> [     1.000000] pci0 at tsp0 bus 0
> [     1.000000] pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line,
> rd/mult, wr/inv ok
> [     1.000000] ahc0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: Adaptec 29160 Ultra160
> SCSI adapter
> [     1.000000] ahc0: interrupting at dec 6600 irq 12
> [     1.000000] ahc0: aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs

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> [     1.000000] isp0 at pci1 dev 1 function 0: QLogic 1020 Fast Wide SCSI HBA
> [     1.000000] isp0: interrupting at dec 6600 irq 24

However there is the isp module happy as a lark singing in a tree.

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> [     5.137915] sd0 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <COMPAQ, BD30088279,
> HPB4> disk fixed
> [     5.229740] sd0: 279 GB, 90774 cyl, 8 head, 806 sec, 512
> bytes/sect x 585937500 sectors
> [     5.324439] sd0: sync (12.50ns offset 63), 16-bit (160.000MB/s)
> transfers, tagged queueing

Okay an old disk but certainly spinning.

> [    12.598875] sd1 at scsibus1 target 1 lun 0: <FUJITSU, MAS3184NC,
> 5B08> disk fixed
> [    12.687743] sd1: 17366 MB, 27206 cyl, 2 head, 653 sec, 512
> bytes/sect x 35566478 sectors

How are these disks connected to the SCSI controller(s) ?



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