Verily did Manuel Bouyer write:

>> esp0 targ 2 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST15150N, 0014> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
>> sd2 at scsibus0sd2(esp0:2:0): not ready, data = blah
>> sd2: could not mode sense (4); using fictitious geometry
>> : 4095MB, 4095 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sec

> Perhaps the drive doesn't spin up at power-on, but at the first command ?
> So it isn't ready when the mode sense command comes. 

Oddly enough, we connected it to the destined Sparc 1 and the problem totally
went away.

*shrug*

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