[SPARCbook] SB3 and short reads

[Sunder]

I've also had some strangeness with a sled in a 3GX.  Once in a while it
would refuse to boot off a sled.  I noticed that the LCD display would
show 4F and the OBP wouldn't show the drive on probe-scsi.

Powering off with Pause-O, ejecting the sled and inserting it back in
usually did the trick.

I've noticed a second cause also - if the battery is less than something
like 12% - even when the charger is plugged in, I can't boot off this
particular drive.

[This is a Toshiba 6gb disk using the old ADTX IDE-SCSI convertor from the
old 2Gb IBM Tadpole provided drive.]

Perhaps this would help in your diagnosis.


probe-scsi-all shouldn't help too much over probe-scsi as there's only one
scsi bus on the Sparcbook 3's.  I'm unsure whether or not the S3's OBP can
recognize the PCMCIA as another scsi buss , much less boot off PCMCIA
drives.


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On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 pmgeahan at home.com wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Ken Hansen wrote:
> 
> > I was thinking of the connector between the sled and the laptop, not the
> > sled and the internal drive...
> > 
> <snip>
> > HTH, good-luck,
> 
> Your luck was, apparently, more useful then any other advice I've gotten
> tonight.  
> 
> I went back to check probe-scsi and probe-scsi-all, and to try booting
> from the external drive.  Lo and behold, both sleds now boot the OS fine,
> no problems, no hiccups, nothing.  
> 
> I suppose I should just chalk this up to One Of Those Things, and let it
> ride.
> 
> I do have one last question - mostly a clarifiction.  When I execute
> "shutdown -g0", the system works for a while, then comes to a point where
> it says to enter root password or ctrl-d for maintenance.  At this point,
> I do a stop-a and a power-off.  Is this the proper point to do this?  It's
> in single-user at this point, as best I can tell, so I don't see why not.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification and the advice, all around.
> 
> 
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