Subject: Re: scsi select/reselect on esp*
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
From: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@broder.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/13/1997 13:27:58
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.  However, the addtion of the DMA-select workaround to the
tree may have fixed this.

-J