[SunRescue] help installing new hd in sparc5

[Ken Hansen]

I think you will need to dig up a data sheet and get an explanation of the two jumpers. I am not familiar with LVD drives...

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian P. Hinz [mailto:bhinz at chipmunk.nsc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 8:47 AM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] help installing new hd in sparc5
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been trying to install a new hard drive in a sparc5 at 
> work and so far I'm 
> having zero success, maybe someone here can help. The drive 
> in question is a 
> quantum 9.1gb lvd sca drive. there are two jumpers on the 
> drive, one for SE mode 
> and the other for NC (i'm not sure what NC stands for) i 
> don't have either set 
> jumpered. If i type 'probe-scsi' from the openboot OK prompt, 
> it lists the first 
> two (this drive is target 3) drives, then the screen rolls by 
> too quickly to 
> read, leaving two lines of zeros at the top of the screen and 
> then listing the 
> information for the rest of the scsi devices correctly. I 
> have booted from the 
> cdrom and used format to label the disk, it shows up 
> correctly. I tried 
> installing Sol8 10/00 anyway yesterday, making sure my "/" 
> partition was less 
> than 2gb. Upon rebooting, it starts to boot the solaris 
> kernel and then bombs 
> out with a bunch of scsi transport errors or else resets. 
> Anyone have an idea 
> what could be causing this? bad controller? wrong jumpers on 
> the drive? this is 
> also a new system board, so the problem could lie there. does 
> anyone have a 
> listing of the proper jumper settings for a sparc5 110 main board? 
> 
> TiA,
> -brian
> 
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