Well this is a seagate 2.5 Gig disk, are you saying i should try a
different disk ??? And what would be required to edit the mode pages to
disable synchronous mode, at this point ill try anything out! experience
through learning is always considered knowledge.

On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 13:24, Don Yuniskis 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.
> 
> Was this a result of the Fireball failing to negotiate synchronous
> mode correctly?  I.e. could you have editted the mode pages to
> disable synchronous negotiation and "limped along"?