[SunHELP] Ultra 60 second hard drive

Paul Savage paul at theclubcounter.com
Thu May 5 10:33:34 CDT 2005


I remember something in the boot prompt saying that running probe 
-scsi-all may cause the system to hang up. Will try this later today on 
a machine with just one drive instaled.

Paul

David Eisner wrote:

>Phil Stracchino wrote:
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>>Paul Savage wrote:
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>>>Yes, we powered down the machine, installed the second drive and powered up.
>>>When I do format after powerup it only shows the first drive. I have 
>>>done this on 3 U60 machines with all the same results.
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>>You *did* perform a 'boot -r', of course....?
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>Way back when (yesterday), at the start of this thread, Paul said: "When
>I run probe-scsi I get a bus error." [1]
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>The way I usually approach these kinds of problems it to try to make
>sure it's not a hardware problem before looking to software (the OS). 
>Power down your system, boot to the OK prompt, and issue
>probe-scsi-all.  If you still get the bus error message, this would
>suggest it has nothing to do with Solaris.
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>-David
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>[1] http://ohno.mrbill.net/pipermail/sunhelp/2005-May/021483.html
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