Subject: Re: esp failures on a 1+
To: Scott Bartram <scottb@orionsoft.com>
From: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@broder.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/22/1997 18:09:14
On Thu, 22 May 1997, Scott Bartram wrote:

> > What indications do you have that your panics are 'esp' related?  The
> > dmesg output that you posted didn't exactly point to that conclusion.
> 
> When I have been at the console during a panic (several times), I see
> many 'esp' error messages immediately prior to the panic. I can't find
> these messages in any logs but they do happen. I'll try to copy them
> down next time but they scroll off the screen very quickly.
> 
> What conclusion do you draw from the dmesg output?

Ok, it really _does_ sound like you are having esp problems.  Is the esp
error akin to:

esp0 reselect: 7 bytes in FIFO!

?

-J