Problems installing 6.0 on Miata (PWS500au)

[Sten Spans]

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Adam Feigin wrote:

> Hello. I've been trying to install 6.0 from CD on my
> Miata, without any luck. At first, I got reports that
> the qlogic driver was a bit flakey, so I should
> install on an IDE drive. Alas, recabling the machine
> is not really what I had in mind.
>
> So, I figured that I'd swap the qlogic for a symbios
> (875) card, and try that; if its the isp driver thats
> flakey, then perhaps it would work.
>
> Well, the mighty casey has struck out. The booting
> with the sym card gets to the same point (looks like
> SCSI probe), and then halts. Here's the boot -v
> output:

Symbios cards work, my ds10 boots hapily from an 895.
It might be a dead scsi disk or bad cables.

Have you tried booting netbsd/openbsd to double check
if the hardware is ok ?

-- 
Sten Spans

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