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>> I am running NetBSD/sparc 1.2 on a Sun 4/110.  I have just attempted 
>> to get an old Sun 3 shoebox going on the system (ESDI drive, MT21 
>> ESDI to SCSI board, 60M tape) without much luck.
>> 
>> I am getting the following error message on bootup:
>> 
>> sw0: data phase error                                                 
>> sw0: aborting, but phase=DATA_OUT (reset)                    
>> sw0: reset SCSI bus for TID=0 LUN=0                 
>> 
>> Can somebody perhaps explain what this means?  If I disconnect all 
>> devices (ie removing the cable from the MT21 board), it doesn't give 
>> any errors.  This shoebox has worked with NetBSD/sparc in the past...
>
>I seem to remember having to mess with parity settings on drives when moving
>a disk from a sun4c machine to a 4/110..  This was years and years ago, but
>I distinctly remember that the sun4c (ipc to be exact) machine didn't seem to
>care, but the 4/110 only worked when the parity jumpers on various
>devices were all set one way or the other. (don't remember if it was on or
off
>that worked at the time)
>
>> Any assistance is appreciated...
>
>Hope that helps somehow..
>
>  John Stone
>  johns@heuris.com
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