I'm sorry- I have to respond to this...

>From: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@broder.com>
>To: "Erik E. Fair" <fair@clock.org>
>cc: port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: scsi select/reselect on esp*
 >On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Erik E. Fair wrote:
>
>> The GENERIC config has select/reselect turned off for the first four SCSI
>> ID's on each bus - normally where disks would be.
>> [ Should we enable them? ]
>
>This was done because of the ESP SCSI chip hardware bug that is found in
>early sun4c models (like the SPARC 1+).  The chip cannot reliably handle
>SCSI reselects.


I'm sorry, that's simply not so. This was worked out in SunOS
4.0.3c and has worked reliably since 1989.

Now, it's true that the NetBSD driver has problems. However,
it's not an insoluble problem.