[SunHELP] sun e450 scsi problem

[Joe Stump]

Andre,

I'm a little behind on SCSI termination. What I can say is that there are no
pins in the back of the drives (you just stick them in the front of the
cabinet). On the back there is a standard SCSI port up near the A/B serial
port and then two addon cards in the bottom with smaller sized connections
(possibly VHDCI or HD50?) - none of these have terminators on them.

My main concern is that I can't get to the "ok" prompt from Hyperterminal.
I'll be installing Solaris 9 from a serial connection. Any references that
people have would be greatly appreciated (both on terminating scsi on Suns
and installing Solaris via a serial port).

--Joe

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Joe Stump
http://www.joestump.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andre' Blanchard" <andre at synchronicity.com>
To: "Joe Stump" <joe at joestump.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 10:11 AM
Subject: RE: [SunHELP] sun e450 scsi problem


> Greetings:
>
> I would focus on the hardware, i.e. cabling, jumpers, and especially
> termination.  First stop via OpenBoot (aka stop-N): the probe scsi
command.
>
> I would concentrate on the CD-rom drive first, aka get to the point where
> the OS setup program is working.
>
> HTH
>
> Regards
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> > Behalf Of Joe Stump
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:51 AM
> > To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: [SunHELP] sun e450 scsi problem
> >
> >
> > Bill,
> >
> > Heh, figured out the serial port problem. I have output coming through
on
> > Hyperterm (yay!), but get a Fatal SCSI erorr which reads something like
> > this:
> >
> > "Fatal SCSI error at script address 8 Illegal instruction\nDrive
> > not ready"
> >
> > I'm the first one to admit that I'm stumbling through this ... I've
search
> > marc and google and found a few posts about this problem, but no
replies.
> > I've found a few possible solutions, but I can't seem to get to the "ok"
> > prompt. BTW, I also resest the NVRAM with "Stop+N".
> >
> > The drives are in slots 0 and 1 locally and I have a sun installation cd
> > burned fresh from sun.com in the cdrom drive.
> >
> > --Joe
> >
> > ps. To Bill: thought I'd take this to the list instead of bothering you
> > offlist :) - thanks for your help!
> >
> > --
> > Joe Stump
> > http://www.joestump.net
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