Herb Peyerl writes:

 > 
 > Have you tried "speed=1" just for grins?

A dangerous suggestion, as it turns out:

Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
cd0(esp0:3:0): esp0: timed out [ecb 0xf04270d0 (flags 0x103, dleft 0, stat 0)], <state 1, nexus 0x0, phase(l 10, c 100, p 3), resid 0, msg(q 0,o 0) >
panic: esp0: invalid state: 6
syncing disks... done
Frame pointer is at 0xf0263320
Call traceback:
  pc = 0xf01f859c  args = (0x110000e6, 0x11000fe6, 0x0, 0xf0278000, 0xf0263438, 0x119000e6, 0xf0263388) fp = 0xf0263388
  pc = 0xf0060d6c  args = (0x100, 0x0, 0xf029a400, 0xfe012000, 0xf029a400, 0x14, 0xf02633f0) fp = 0xf02633f0
  pc = 0xf00267d4  args = (0xf02263a0, 0x100, 0x6, 0x6, 0xffffffff, 0x14, 0xf0263458) fp = 0xf0263458
  pc = 0xf0008a60  args = (0xf0427000, 0xf00257dc, 0xf002708c, 0xf04270d0, 0xffffffff, 0x3e8, 0xf02634d0) fp = 0xf02634d0
  pc = 0xf00271cc  args = (0x114000e2, 0xf04270d0, 0xf04270d0, 0x103, 0x0, 0x0, 0xf0263580) fp = 0xf0263580
  pc = 0xf0049b94  args = (0xf04270d0, 0x118000e3, 0x1, 0xf002708c, 0xf0450010, 0x1, 0xf0263610) fp = 0xf0263610
  pc = 0xf0049a08  args = (0xf0298400, 0xf0450010, 0xf0e6f000, 0xf0298400, 0x3d63, 0x2710, 0xf0263678) fp = 0xf0263678
  pc = 0xf01bb2f0  args = (0xf02637b0, 0x809c4400, 0x11400ae5, 0x1, 0xffff, 0x4e20, 0xf02636e0) fp = 0xf02636e0
  pc = 0xf0008a60  args = (0xf02637b0, 0xf01bb248, 0x3cb6e349, 0x1d555, 0x95, 0x0, 0xf0263750) fp = 0xf0263750
  pc = 0xf0058bf0  args = (0x0, 0x0, 0xf02201e4, 0x0, 0xffffffff, 0xf029a000, 0xf1c2fd60) fp = 0xf1c2fd60

dumping to dev 7,9 offset 131397
dump sd1(esp0:2:0): esp0: timed out [ecb 0xf0427138 (flags 0x1, dleft 200, stat 0)], <state 6, nexus 0xf04270d0, phase(l 16, c 6, p 3), resid 0, msg(q 20,o 0) >
sd1(esp0:2:0): ncr53c9x_abort: not NEXUS
sd1(esp0:2:0): max sync rate 4.03MB/s
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 succeeded
sd0(esp0:0:0): max sync rate 4.03MB/s
rebooting

Dan
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