Greetings and Proliferations!

>Hauke Fath uttered:


>At 11:00 Uhr +0100 26.11.2001, Volker Borchert wrote:
>>|> bwtwo at sbus0 slot2 offset 0x0 level 9:sunw,501-1561, 1152x900 console
>>|>
>>|> it goes baserk!
>>
>>I had a Sparc-10 panic at that point when I tried to use a Quantum
>>Fireball TM hard drive. The 10's Fast SCSI controller, NetBSD's
>>driver, and the notoriously bad SCSI implementation of that disk
>>just didn't go together. That same disk works fine in a Sparc-2.
>
>Looks like the 10 is special in that respect...
>
>About the same story here with two 4G Quantum Atlas III disks that ran
>happily in a SS2 with NetBSD, run happily in the SS10 with Solaris 7&8 but
>swamped a NetBSD 1.5 kernel with "bad parity" messages so that it barely
>made it to multi-user.


Hmmm... just out of curiosity, I assume these drives are *internal*?
If external, they really **should** be terminated.  And, running
Fast SCSI might even need to be terminated if they are *internal*
(assuming you don't have something else external that terminates).

It could be that NBSD hammers on the SCSI bus a bit more and, at
the higher data rate, might lead to some ringing in a poorly
terminated cable... (?)

<shrug>  It's an easy "fix" to try...

--don