[rescue] Friggin sparc 5

[Michael A. Turner]

	Ya it is a bad disk, the underneath disk was making noise that I
finally found. Removing that one returned the scsi bus to normal. Right now
I am loading solaris 8 on it as this seems to have cleared that the problem
of what to do to clean the drives for me. The bad drive was the boot drive.

Michael A. Turner
Systems Engineer
WHRO
michael.turner at whro.org
http://www.whro.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Sandau [mailto:ssandau at bath.tmac.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 2:40 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Friggin sparc 5


Just for info... I have a SPARC20 that works fine with a single Seagate
9Gb drive, but probe-scsi on that drive clears the screen, too. I found
that any drive numbered higher than the default-boot-3 of the Seagate
had its info displayed fine. Info on any drive with SCSI ID 0-2 was
"lost" when the probe of the Seagate drive cleared the screen. *shrug*

I've also had trouble with some of the SPARC 5/20 external SCSI
connectors; I'd disconnect the external tape right off, then work on the
internals like Brian suggests. Does sound like a bad disk. I've had lots
of problems like that lately because I have lots of SPARCS and little of
money. ;)

Steve

Brian Hechinger wrote:
> 
> >       Then it just sits their and does nothing. I am hearing a funny
sound
> > from the case (sound like something hitting something then a power down,
> > very very faint). I do a stop-A and get to the OK prompt. A test scsi
> > command just goes right back to the ok prompt. So I do a probe scsi and
it
> > replies back with Data Access Exception . Their is a CD-rom in this
system,
> > Two hard drives and an external tape drive. Something Ijsut noticed is
that
> > a scsi-probe-all sits for a second then flashes something about the
seagate
> > drive (goes by to fast to see) something below that (but not as much as
the
> > section with the seagate drive) and then the screen clears and I see the
> > tape drive and cd-rom listed.
> >
> >       Anyone got an idea of whatr is wrong, and more importantly how to
> > fix it?
> 
> sounds like something isn't playing nice.  pull all the drives off of it
and
> start adding them back one by one until you get the problem again and
there is
> a good chance that you just found your problem. :)
> 
> i say this since a probe-scsi should not be clearing the screen.  that
sounds
> like something is bad with the one disk.  also, try putting a serial
console on
> it since there is no clearing one of them. :)
> 
> -brin
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