On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Erik E. Fair wrote:

> The GENERIC config has select/reselect turned off for the first four SCSI
> ID's on each bus - normally where disks would be.
> [ Should we enable them? ]

This was done because of the ESP SCSI chip hardware bug that is found in
early sun4c models (like the SPARC 1+).  The chip cannot reliably handle
SCSI reselects.  However, the addtion of the DMA-select workaround to the
tree may have fixed this.

-J