Today I decided to install NetBSD/sparc 1.5 on one of our Sparcstation
IPC.

During the newfs stage when installing NetBSD, I get:

(esp0:3:0): selection failed; 0 left in FIFO [intr 18, stat 83, step 3]

Does somebody know what this is about?

When (re)installing SunOS I see messages about the sd0 driver
reverting to «slow SCSI cable mode» and later reverting to «async.
mode».

When SunOS has enabled «async. mode» during miniroot install, things
move around better. (But when I boot from the miniroot, I'm back to
square one.)

Is there a way to make NetBSD switch to async. mode, or can I kiss
this particular hard drive goodbye?

If there's insufficient information, I can provide it.

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Trond Endrestøl                          |    trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no
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