On 10 Apr 2002, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> Hi folks.  I've been toying around with NetBSD on my SPARCstation 2, and
> getting some weird error messages.  Nobody seems to know what they are,
> and folks advised me to post them here.
> The SS2 is set up to netboot from another machine, using the
> instructions in the NetBSD Netboot HOWTO.  The intent was to netboot,
> label the hard drive, newfs, and put the packages on to the filesystem.
> Oh, I'm using NetBSD-1.5.2 sparc, downloaded from ftp.netbsd.org (which
> is my closest mirror).
>
> # mount /dev/sd0a /mnt
> esp0: !TC on DATA XFER [intr 10, stat 83, step 4] prevphase 1, resid 2000
> esp0: !TC on DATA XFER [intr 10, stat 83, step 4] prevphase 1, resid 400
> esp0: !TC on DATA XFER [intr 10, stat 87, step 4] prevphase 0, resid c00
> esp0: !TC on DATA XFER [intr 10, stat 87, step 4] prevphase 0, resid 400
>
> Similar messages show up whenever I perform any operations that involve
> the disk (newfs, tar, ls, etc).  Oh, I almost forgot, I'm using the
> serial console, and there are no sbus cards, and a single SCSI disk.
> Any thoughts appreciated,

	I've seen other reports but not experienced this on any of my
	sparc boxes. It could be some interaction with the specific
	drive you have in there - could you post a dmesg? Also it
	might be worth trying to boot the kernel from the latest sparc
	-current snapshot to see if its fixed there - just drop it in
	/netbsd.test and then 'boot netbsd.test' from the PROM.

	You could try disabling sync on the drive - I think that would
	be updating
		esp0    at sbus0 slot ? offset ? flags 0x0000
	to
		esp0    at sbus0 slot ? offset ? flags 0x00f0
	in the kernel config.

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