[SunRescue] Confused SS5 booting -- drive ID?

Kevin Loch rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon May 21 11:54:16 CDT 2001


Are these drives inside the SS5, plugged into the
dual SCA connector?  If so, the drives are
unjumpered physically, but each SCA connector
sets the drive ID.  The lower drive will be
ID3 while the upper connector is ID1

boot disk will boot off of the lower drive.

KL

BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:
> 
> My confused SS5 is still not booting correctly on non Solaris
> (Net/OpenBSD) installs.
> 
> I just opened it up and it appears both drives have ID=0.
> Is this correct for SS5 drives?  Seems a bit off...
> 
> Is the SS5 drive backplane prewired for drive ID?
> 
> Any insights are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob
> 
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