>|> bwtwo at sbus0 slot2 offset 0x0 level 9:sunw,501-1561, 1152x900 console
>|> 
>|> it goes baserk!
>
>I had a Sparc-10 panic at that point when I tried to use a Quantum
>Fireball TM hard drive. The 10's Fast SCSI controller, NetBSD's
>driver, and the notoriously bad SCSI implementation of that disk
>just didn't go together. That same disk works fine in a Sparc-2.

Was this a result of the Fireball failing to negotiate synchronous
mode correctly?  I.e. could you have editted the mode pages to
disable synchronous negotiation and "limped along"?