Subject: Re: SCSI trouble w/ IBM WDS-3100 disk
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG, driehuis@indy.knoware.nl>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/10/1995 10:24:01
> Anyone seen this?
> 
> esp0(2,0): MSGIN failed, trying alt selection
> esp: resetting esp0 SCSI bus
> esp0: stray interrupt

The esp driver has trouble handling the synchronous operation negotiation
exchange that SCSI 2 drives want to do, on older versions of the esp
device. There's a rather insiduous hack in esp.c at the moment to try
to communicate to such drives anyway. It is not always succesfull..

-pk