[SPARCbook] Sparcbook 3000XT Solaris 8 install doesn't see IDE drive - HELP!

[Thomas Roehr]

Apparently,  Solaris 8 doesn't see the drive. This can be because of a bad
drive, or the openboot  doesn't know what to do with them. I would hook up a
external scsi disk withthe cdrom and install onto that. That way, you can then
see if Tadpole patches would resolve the issue, copy the os over to the ide,
run an installboot and be done.

Good Luck,

Tom

Jason King wrote:

> Ok, I appreciate all the help I got with the pcmcia cdrom question but now
> have a new one related to the orignal reason I posted the previous message.
> Instead of using the pcmcia Panasonic external cdrom w/ card, I bought a
> cable and tried to reinstall the OS again.  Since I still ran into problem I
> thought perhaps the cdrom is just bad and replaced it with a external sun
> 411 cdrom and set it to scsi id 6.  Now, I can "boot cdrom" and the Solaris
> installer starts up and goes to the point that it wants to format and setup
> partitions where it then can not find the ide hard drive and quits.  I tried
> with Linux Mandrake, RedHat, Suse and NetBSD and all these OS's end with the
> same problem of not recognizing any hard disks.  Does anyone have any ideas
> on this problem?  Can I boot the machine, drop to a prompt and then mount
> the cdrom and start the solaris installer that way?  I have tried to do it
> this way with both the panasonic cdrom and the 411 cdrom and can't seem to
> mount either, maybe it's in the syntax.  Can someone post a example to try?
> Tadpole makes mention of this problem with single ide drives in thier
> Ultrabook line but don't mention how to get around it.
>
> Jason King
>
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