Subject: Re: SCSI trouble w/ IBM WDS-3100 disk
To: port-sparc <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Iain Hibbert <plunky@skate.demon.co.uk>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/13/1995 01:11:13
Hello Paul,

> > 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..

  I get this same stray interrupt thing with sources from about the
same time, but it eventually says its a SCSI1 disk when its done..
not sure if thats relevant, but it works fine under SunOS and NetBSD
1.0..

]ain