[SunHELP] Installing new HardDrive

[Ravi Katti]

Well you might have already done the following

Check for the scsi ID, make sure that ID's do not clash. If this is ok, then 
try cleaning the scsi connector on the hard drive.
Also make sure that scsi cable length is not long.

Just my $0.02


----Original Message Follows----
From: Patrick Ouellet <patrick.ouellet at microtecsecurite.com>
Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunHELP] Installing new HardDrive
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 10:25:17 -0500

Hi everyone.

We have brough a Dell server with Scsi drive.
And we realised that the HD in the Dell is similar
to those in our old Sun SPARC server.

Which were useless because of dead disks.
So I write to seagate which manifactured the drives
( The new one in the Dell and the old one in the sun )

Sun's Old drive were: ST31200WC
Dell new drive is: ST318305LC

Seagate wrote me back and told me that their should
be no hardware problem in putting the ST318305LC drive
in the old sun.

So I put the drive in the Sun.
All seems to work ok, but I receive the "Bad magic number in disk
label" when it starts.

I searched a bit and rapidely found that this probably means that the
drive is not formated for sun. And that I only need to format it.

So I put the drive in with the solaris CD in the drive
and boot it up.

Then I thinked of something..
I made STOP+A and go to the ok prompt

ok probe-scsi-all
/iommu at 0,10000000/sbus at 0,10001000/espdma at 5,8400000/esp at 5,8800000
SCSI unexpected phase = 0

If I do the same thing without the drive i see this.

ok probe-scsi-all
/iommu at 0,10000000/sbus at 0,10001000/espdma at 5,8400000/esp at 5,8800000

Target 6
   Unit 0   Removable Read Only device     TOSHIBA 
XM-4101TASUNSLCD108404/18/94

So.. can someone tell me what is the problem, and if possible
what can I do to solve this issue?

Thanx to everone.

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