[SunRescue] Something special about a SUN 2x CD?

[Mike Hebel]

I got similar results when I installed a faster Toshiba SCSI CD in the old
411 box to replace the 2x drive.  Mine turned out to be SCSI ID problems.
What I found was that the jumper switch assembly would not work for the new
drive and indeed caused the drive to appear on all IDs.  When I used
physical jumper blocks the problem was fixed.

Just my $.02 of experience.

Mike Hebel

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Ken Hansen
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 11:32 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Something special about a SUN 2x CD?


I have gotten similar (peculiar) activity when I put a CD-ROM drive on an
Axil 245 system - with the CD-ROM attached, the whole SCSI chain seemed bad,
but when removed, everything was fine...

I stopped working on that box for a while (the old OS install was tolerable
for now), but your post has me curious... I had a good drive, cable &
terminator, as I was able to move the same setup over to an LX and do an
install w/o problem.

probe-scsi didn't shoe the drive on all IDs, but it did repeat the drive
information from the one HD on the chain for the CD-ROM drive...

Something was goofy...

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "scohen - Stephen Cohen" <scohen at acxiom.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 11:47 PM
Subject: [SunRescue] Something special about a SUN 2x CD?


> The Sun 2x CD drives my system crazy.  When set up as ID6, it will appear
on
> any unused ID as shown with probe-scsi.
>
> Removing the CD enables probe-scsi to see everything correctly.
>
> I can 'boot cdrom', but when the RedHad loader wants to actually mount the
> CD, the process fails.
>
> What is so special with this device?
>
> Regards,
> Steve
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