[SunHELP] Invalid Sbus slot number 6

bran tregare sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Sun Nov 18 17:48:05 CST 2001


You have all 3 drive selects on, that is setting the cdrom to ID7, which is 
the same ID as the SCSI controller.

  DS 0-2 are Drive/ID select 0-2

You should have only the 2nd and 3rd scsi ID set, (jumpered) nothing on 
parity, nothing on term, jumper on block.  that may solve your problem :)


At 11:52 AM 11/18/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Not too familair with the terms ds1 ds2..
>
>here is what i have..
>
>
>[|] [| [|]    [:]         [|]       [:]        [|]           [:]
>o o o o
>scsi ID   Prty   Term   Test   Block       Eject        DC Input
>
>The pipe '|' denotes that the tines are jumpered and the ':'  represents an
>unjumpered terminal.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Matt
>
>
>bran tregare wrote:
>
> > how are your jumpers set on the plextor?  the blocksize jumper should be on
> > and the parity jumper should be off, you should also have the cd set to ID
> > 6 (ds 1 and ds2 jumpered, ds0 open.) also, you may need to remove the
> > termination jumper on it, i've had ultra 1's (and 20's and 5's) fail to
> > boot if the term jumper was active on the internal cdroms.
> >
> > At 03:57 AM 11/18/01 -0600, you wrote:
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >i still have an error and cannot get this sun ultra 2 to boot off of a
> > >cdrom.  I have the cd's burned ok as far as i know.
> > >
> > >When i boot the machine the first line i see is 'Invalid sbus slot
> > >number 6"  Has anyone ever seen this before?  The cdrom is a plextor and
> > >it has the boot block jumper and a parity jumper and scsi ID jumpers.
> > >The only devices on this machine are a scsi drive and the cdrom.  I have
> > >the cdrom cables set up right (according to sun docs).
> > >
> > >I am at a loss here and this is my last resort before i either give this
> > >machine away or sell it.  Does it sound like there is a hardware problem
> > >,  conflict ?   Thank you for any help.
> > >
> > >Matt in Houston
> > >
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