[SunHELP] Sparc 20 sees new hard drive but won't boot fromit

[Dave Lowenstein]

I tried the single ended jumper but didn't try narrow yet. Do you think it 
would work at all if the jumpers were set incorrectly though? Like I said, 
the drive works just fine as long as it's not the boot disk.


>From: bran tregare <tregare2 at attbi.com>
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: RE: [SunHELP] Sparc 20 sees new hard drive but won't boot  fromit
>Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 17:31:54 -0800
>
>At 06:57 PM 2/5/02 +0000, you wrote:
>>I've tried probe-scsi and probe-scsi-all. If my old hard drive is in along
>>with the new one, those commands see the old drive and the cdrom. If only
>>the new drive is in, they don't see anything but the cdrom. show-devs
>>doesn't say anything about my disks.
>>
>>the jumpers should have no effect on whether it boots from the drive if
>>the drive works as a second hard drive, right?
>
>is there a SE Jumper?  the Sparc 20 is expecting a Single Ended device,
>U160 is LVD (Low Voltage Differential)  plus IIRC the controller in the
>Sparc 20 is narrow. and U160 devices are by default wide....
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