[SunHELP] ultra 2 cd-boot question

[Matthew Bettinger]

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Sailer
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 11:19 AM
Subject: RE: [SunHELP] ultra 2 cd-boot question


>There are some confusing points in your Email.
>Do you have more than one CDROM?

No.  1 scsi plextor 12X

>If you only have one, you say at one point it is ID6 (scsi drive)
>In another point and in final questions you say the jumpers are CS, SLAVE,
Block  - this ususally indicates a IDE type drive
>Are you forcing the IDE cable into the SCSI connector on the motherboard.
All pins on the connector should be used.  The >IDE connector is smaller in
pin count than the SCSI connector.

No.  It is a scsi cdrom, sorry for any confusion.  It does have that jumper
block.  May I ask (the list) what software you use to burn cd's ?

>Please clarify.

I am confused about the scsi cable hook up.  The hard drive plugs into the
board.  The cable (which has 3 connectors in a chain)  should go from the
cdrom to which slot on the mother board and  how should it be hooked up?

here is the way Ii have it now..

CDROM------{scsi connector 1}-------{scsi connector2}
                          (mother board)               (mother board)

Since there is only one device attached to the chain then there should be
only one connection to the mother board...?  Are you thouroughly confused
now ?  Thank you for taking the time to read this.

And if you forgot my other question was what cd software have you used to
sucessfully burn an image in windows or BSD.

Matt in Houston
-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Matthew Bettinger
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 11:51 AM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunHELP] ultra 2 cd-boot question


Hello,

I am new to this list, anyway and have a little dilema.  I have an Ultra 2
enterprise that will not boot up, here is the deal.  The machine has a scsi
drive and a plextor 12 x cdrom.  the hard drive is plugged into the rear hot
swappable bay.  The cdrom jumpers are set  to CS and the 512k BLOCK jumper
is on.  I have a scsi cable with three connectors on it.  One end is
connected to the cdrom drive, the other two i have plugged into the mother
board.  (this doesn't seem right and this could be my problem? ) .

I turn the machine on and I get an error that says Invalid sbus slot 6.  The
machine continues to boot and will boot up off the hard drive if I let it.
(the hard drive has sunos 4 on it but I do not know the root pass, so i know
the harddrive is ok)  I do a stop-a and probe-scsi at the ok prompt and the
hard drive is recognised and the cdrom is recognised.  The cdrom is at 6, i
forget the exact line but from what I have been reading it is where it
should be.

When i try a boot cdrom i see the cdrom light turn on and then it tells me
"Cannot open boot device".  I have tried burning the cdrom with burncd in
bsd and i burned it in winblows with nero burning rom.

So i guess there are three questions that i would like some help on.

1-  How should the scsi cables be hooked up with a cdrom and the hard drive
with the hot swappable bays

2-  What should the jumpers on the cdrom be set to.  ie, CS, slave,  BLOCK
etc.

3- What is some good software to burn the cdrom with,  in nero should i set
it to make a 'bootable' cdrom ?  Could this be the problem with not being
able to open boot device or does the problem reside in the Invalid sbus slot
6.

Ok more than 3 questions =]

Thank you in advance for any insight into this proble.  I am getting pretty
frustrated with this whole thing as you may imagine.

Again, thank you folks


Matthew Bettinger
Champion Elevators, Inc.
8400 Villa Drive
Houston, Texas 77061
713-640-8500
www.championelevators.com