Subject: Re: SCSI drives and Sun 3/50's...
To: None <woods@kuma.web.net, jelibean@jmlbhome.demon.co.uk,>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 11/29/1995 13:44:54
> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 95 10:57:21 -0500 (EST)
> From: woods@kuma.web.net (Greg A. Woods)
> 
> [ On Thu, November 23, 1995 at 09:00:20 (+0000), Julian Bean wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: SCSI drives and Sun 3/50's...
> >
> > Sounds like the parity problem - the bootstrap can't cope with parity
> > enabled, so make sure the SCSI device with the kernel on has parity
> > disabled.
> 
> Well, maybe that's so on Sun-3/50's, but I'd like to point out that it
> is definitely not true for 3/260's with 3.0 PROM's.

Right, the SCSI parity problems depend on the PROM version.
There is some information about this on this web page:
http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~hardware/Sun3/sun3main.html