[SunHELP] Invalid Sbus slot number 6

Matthew Bettinger sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Wed Nov 21 11:26:42 CST 2001


Leslie,

The board looks like that with two exceptions.  there are 2 more  scsi
connectors just to the left of the disk drives.  I don't have the Numbers.
argh.

Thanks forthe diagram tho =]

Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie V Brigance" <brigance at us.ibm.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Invalid Sbus slot number 6


> I am only slightly aquainted with the Ultra2.
> Unless this is a multiple motherboard machine
> (I could find nothing which referenced such a beast)
> I do not see anything which could be SBus slot 6
> unless the CPU slots are considered SBus as opposed
> to MBus.
> Could someone enlighten me about the layout of the U2
> if this layout is incorrect?
>
> Taken from docs.sun:
>
> Figure 58 - Ultra 2 Series Motherboard Block Diagram
> (Embedded image moved to file: pic02784.gif)
>
> Les
>
>
> Matt Bettinger <mattb at houston.rr.com>@sunhelp.org on 11/20/2001 06:14:26
PM
>
> Please respond to sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
> Sent by:  sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org
>
>
> To:   sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> cc:
> Subject:  Re: [SunHELP] Invalid Sbus  slot number 6
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Still can't getthis machine to boot.  I even getthe invalid sbus slot 6
> when i
> remove all scsi devies -- would that lend me to believe that  there is
> something wrong with the board ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Matthew Bettinger
>
> 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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