At 11:00 Uhr +0100 26.11.2001, Volker Borchert wrote:
>|> 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.

Looks like the 10 is special in that respect...

About the same story here with two 4G Quantum Atlas III disks that ran
happily in a SS2 with NetBSD, run happily in the SS10 with Solaris 7&8 but
swamped a NetBSD 1.5 kernel with "bad parity" messages so that it barely
made it to multi-user.

	hauke

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