Greetings all,

I have a Sun SPARCstation SLC running NetBSD 1.2. All is well.

I added a fifth disk to the SCSI chain the other day and now get the
following squawkage when reading or writing heavily with the disk:

May 12 17:57:56 sputnik /netbsd: esp0: RESELECT: 7 bytes in FIFO!

Of the 5 drives on the machine only the one gives this error. This 
drive is an older Quantum LPS240S but two of the other drives are
also older Quantums (LPS540S and LPS120S). 

The drive in question has been in steady service since new in other
machines and has never burped even once so I am fairly confident
that the drive is OK.

Everything seems fine after the error so I assume the SCSI code 
does The Right Thing and recovers properly. The file system
fsck's OK after the error during a write.

My questions are:

1) What exactly does this error mean?
2) What are the possible causes of the error?

Thanks much for your input...

-- Doug

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doug mackintosh
the unix geek
doug@doug.net