henning loeser wrote:

> trying to install g77 on my mac I ran into the problem of having only 
> insufficient diskspace available to build the whole darn thing toghether 
> with gcc2.7.2.3 which it requires (total of more than 105MB).
> I attached my 105MB syquest to hold the sources and serve as compile
> directory but for some reason it seems to have problems when writing 
> larger files. I get the following message:
> > dmaintr: discarded 32 b (last transfer was 2544 b).
> > esp0: !TC [intr 10, stat 87, step 4] prevphase 0, resid 9f0
> Does that mean that I should go out and by a better SCSI cable or that I 
> should install a different driver on the disk? (Currently it's the HD-SC 
> 7.5.3 Apple Patched HD-driver). 

Actually, we don't use the Apple driver (or any other MacOS driver for
that matter), so using another shouldn't make a difference.  However, the
error you are seeing seems to be a possibly known bug in the esp driver.
I seem to remember Allen Briggs (briggs@macbsd.com) saying something about
the esp driver having some troubles with certain types of removable media.
Perhaps this is it.  I do believe he was working on a fix, tho.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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