[SunHELP] Ultra 60 second hard drive

Paul Savage paul at theclubcounter.com
Thu May 5 07:25:22 CDT 2005


These are SCA drives that install into the drive cage inside the 
machine. I will look into how these drive terminate. There are no 
jumpers on these drives.

James Fogg wrote:

>Please bottom-post - see bottom for my reply
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>>This is an internal  drive. Is there supposed to be an
>>internal terminator on the motherboard somewhere or a jumper?
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>>Paul
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>>James Fogg wrote:
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>>>>We are trying to install a second 36gb 15K Cheetah hard
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>>drive to our
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>>>>U60 running Sol 9. I set up everything in the vsttab file OK but
>>>>cannot find the drive when I bootup. When I run probe-scsi
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>>I get a bus
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>>>>error. Any ideas?
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>>>Is your bus properly terminated?
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>All SCSI busses must be terminated at each end. SCSI host adapters often
>terminate one end, but you must terminate the other end. Some drives
>have terminators built-in, on older disks it's a resistor pack you plug
>in or remove.
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>Check to make sure the drive in the middle of the bus isn't terminating
>(check manufacturers docs to find out how they do it) and make sure the
>disk on the end of the bus IS terminating. If the end disk doesn't have
>a built-in terminator you will need to add one to the SCSI cabling after
>the last disk on the bus.
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>Also, check your disk SCSI ID number. You cannot duplicate SCSI ID's on
>a single bus.
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