[SunHELP] Ultra 60 second hard drive

Paul Savage paul at theclubcounter.com
Thu May 5 07:41:21 CDT 2005


No, I have not. What does it do?

Paul

Larry Snyder wrote:

>Um, have you run devfsadm?
>-ls-
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>Paul Savage <paul at theclubcounter.com> wrote:
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>>Any reason why when a second known working drive is installed format 
>>does not see it?
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>>Paul
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>>Olaf Mersmann wrote:
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>>>James Fogg wrote:
>>>*snip*
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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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>>>The U60 has an internal SCA backplane for the two scsi disks. AFAIK 
>>>all SCA stuff is auto terminating.
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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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>>>Again, AFAIK, SCA deals with SCSI ID assignment.
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>>>-- Olaf
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>>>P.S: I've had similar problems with newer (U320 SCA) drives in my U2, 
>>>but never investigated the issue.
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