On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Michael Lorenz wrote:

> Greetings !
> 
> > >       I believe someone mentioned one of their problem disks was not
> > >       liked on their 3/80 and their sparc - is there anyone who would
> > >       be willing to look at the problem if they had such a disk?
> > >       Assuming so, would someone with a problem disk be OK with
> > >       shipping it? :)
> > 
> > I think I may have mentioned a problem with a Quantum SUN0207 in the past.
> > I have ~10 of the Quantum 425's that the 3/80 doesn't like - haven't tried
> > them in a Sparc (apart from running Solaris from one on a Sparcbook).  If
> > someone can look at this, I can ship them a 425 and the 0207.
> 
> Hmm, maybe off topic or irrelevant but Quantum and SCSI rang a bell - my
> hp300 doesn't like any Quantum harddisk I rried ( several Lightning
> models ) because the BootPROM used very restrictive timing parameters,
> so the bus scan simply didn't find them because the detection timed out.
> Strangely a SCSI ZIP seems to have no problem so I boot my hp300 from a
> ZIP... 

	IIRC the sun3 problem was due to a change in the NetBSD driver,
	however if anyone with a problem driver is interested in going
	through the esp driver and increasing all the delays (maybe by a
	factor of 10?), it could be a useful datapoint...

		David/absolute