[SPARCbook] SPARCbook 3 SCSI Advice

[stephen price]

haven't had a sparcbook3 in a while - but it sounds like a scsi buss issue

1) termination on disk pack?  none / active / passive ?
2) scsi id of the various devices you are trying to attach?

regards
steve

--- On Tue, 7/20/10, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk>
> Subject: [SPARCbook] SPARCbook 3 SCSI Advice
> To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
> Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 4:50 PM
> Hi,
>
> My first post to the list. Hope someone is listening ;)
>
> I have a SPARCbook 3 and just bought an Apple HDI30 to HD50
> external
> SCSI cable, with a view to trying the external SCSI floppy
> drive that
> came with the SPARCbook but more importantly attaching an
> external hard
> drive and CDROM so that I may backup the machine and
> install Solaris
> 2.6.
>
> When I attach the cable at the SPARCbook end and leave the
> other end
> disconnected the SPARCbook booted fine. When I attached the
> other end to
> an external disk pack that was turned on prior to the
> SPARCbook booting
> the screen went from black to white but did not display the
> SPARCbook
> logo. It appeared to still be functioning - if I typed
> PAUSE-A then
> 'boot disk' the machine booted.
>
> I tried various combinations of drives but for the most
> part the
> SPARCbook hung. Alarmingly this also happened afterwards
> when the cable
> was completely disconnected. However, after being left a
> while it did
> boot and after a 'reset' it appeared to behave itself.
>
> Is this normal behaviour? I'm trying to narrow down what
> the issue is
> *without* damaging the SPARCbook, so any advice is greatly
> appreciated.
> Is it worth me attaching a serial console to port A to see
> if there are
> any diagnostics being issued?
>
> BTW - none of the peripherals I connected were
> SUN-specific, in fact
> they were an external generic SCSI hard disk enclosure and
> a DEC BA350 3
> drive canister external housing. I was able to do a
> probe-scsi when the
> BA350 was attached and a list of the drives attached, but
> that was not
> repeatable.
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> Mark.
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