SOLVED!!! Re: [rescue] Ultra 30 and Maximum Drive Size

[Gary Nichols]

Yeah, my bad Ken.  I broke my own rule -- make sure the hardware is ok
first.  I guess my first clue that it was hardware was when I attempted
to use Jedi Mind Tricks(tm) and they failed.
*waving hand*
me: You WILL auto-boot....
U30: Nay.  Trap 3e.
*waving hand frantically*
me: You WILL AUTO-BOOT!!!!
U30: Fool.  Your x86 tricks are futile against my Sparc architecture.  


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Gary Nichols
garynichols at mysun.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Hansen <n2vip at yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 1, 2002 2:19 pm
Subject: Re: SOLVED!!! Re: [rescue] Ultra 30 and Maximum Drive Size

> On Tuesday, January 1, 2002, at 03:51 PM, Gary Nichols wrote:
> 
> > So I'm staring at the jumper blocks of some other IBM drives I have
> > laying around and notice that a few have a jumper set.  DING DING 
> DING!>
> > Turns out that the 18GB IBM drive I installed didn't have the 
> 'disable> sync negotiations' jumper set.  After I set the jumper I 
> popped the
> > drive back in and BAM autoboots just fine.   I just added a second
> > 18GB drive to hang /export/home off of and life is so, so good.
> 
> Doh!
> 
> First rle of Technical Support, never assume anything - I assumed 
> everything else was fine... Oh well, I've been "off the phones" for 
> a 
> few years now, guess I'm getting rusty...
> 
> Ken
> 
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> 
> 
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