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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.informatik.uni-bonn.de!theory.cs.uni-bonn.de!ignatios From: ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Gateway NetBSD v1.1 and WangTEK 4mm drive Date: 2 Jul 1996 17:27:09 GMT Organization: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit"at Bonn, Institut Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4rbm5d$138@apoll.informatik.uni-bonn.de> References: <DtxB1C.Gpn@sysadm.physics.uiowa.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: theory.cs.uni-bonn.de To: dyson@IowaSP.Physics.UIowa.EDU In article <DtxB1C.Gpn@sysadm.physics.uiowa.edu>, dyson@blanc.physics.uiowa.edu (Richard L. Dyson) writes: > > I recently started to play with the Gateway NetBSD v1.1 CD-ROM on my > Amiga system. I tried the boot-CD option and found that the system locks up > trying to query my WangTEK 4mm tape drive. It finds all the other devices > on my SCSI bus correctly but when it gets to the 4mm the access lights on both > the controller and tape drive light up and the process stops there. > > I have also tried this with the WangTEK drive disconnected and the boot process > made it all the way to the command line. I will admit to not having searched > the docs on the CD, but does anyone know anything about this old style 4mm > tape drive and NetBSD? Standard answer: try to use loadbsd -I [insert 2tothepowerofitstargetidhere] netbsd to boot the kerne. Some devices claim they talk sync, but fail afterwards, and hang. Regards, Ignatios Souvatzis