[SunRescue] drive troubles

[Gregory Leblanc]

Well, removing the start jumper got me a little further, but I think the
electronics on this drive are dead.  (did somebody say that they'd never
seen that?  :-)  Anyway, where's the price break on narrow SCSI hard drives
(as in, after what capacity do they take a big price jump), I'd like to have
a decent amount of storage on this box.  Thanks,
	Grego

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hatle, Steven J. [mailto:shatle at vue.com]
> 
> Will the drive start at a "probe-scsi" from the PROM prompt? 
> IIRC, that
> should sent the start command. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Leblanc [mailto:GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu]
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Theodoropoulos [mailto:paul at anastrophe.com]
> > 
> > I'm not certain, but I believe you *don't* want the 'start on 
> > command enable' to be jumpered. That particular one means that you 
> > don't want the drive to spin up unless the controller sends a 
> > 'start' command.
> 
> From the manual that Toshiba tech support sent me:
> "START ON COMMAND ENABLE (J1-PINS 3 & 4) - PRESENT WHEN SHIPPED
> When removed, the spindle motor will start only on receipt of 
> the Start Unit
> command."
> 
> Anyway, I've tried it with that both shorted and not, and the 
> bloody drive
> still won't spin up under normal circumstances, only when the 
> test jumper is
> enabled.  Is there a way to get the SS2 PROM to explicitly 
> send the Start
> Unit SCSI Command?  Thanks,
> 	Grego