[rescue] Friggin sparc 5

[Steve Sandau]

Just for info... I have a SPARC20 that works fine with a single Seagate
9Gb drive, but probe-scsi on that drive clears the screen, too. I found
that any drive numbered higher than the default-boot-3 of the Seagate
had its info displayed fine. Info on any drive with SCSI ID 0-2 was
"lost" when the probe of the Seagate drive cleared the screen. *shrug*

I've also had trouble with some of the SPARC 5/20 external SCSI
connectors; I'd disconnect the external tape right off, then work on the
internals like Brian suggests. Does sound like a bad disk. I've had lots
of problems like that lately because I have lots of SPARCS and little of
money. ;)

Steve

Brian Hechinger wrote:
> 
> >       Then it just sits their and does nothing. I am hearing a funny sound
> > from the case (sound like something hitting something then a power down,
> > very very faint). I do a stop-A and get to the OK prompt. A test scsi
> > command just goes right back to the ok prompt. So I do a probe scsi and it
> > replies back with Data Access Exception . Their is a CD-rom in this system,
> > Two hard drives and an external tape drive. Something Ijsut noticed is that
> > a scsi-probe-all sits for a second then flashes something about the seagate
> > drive (goes by to fast to see) something below that (but not as much as the
> > section with the seagate drive) and then the screen clears and I see the
> > tape drive and cd-rom listed.
> >
> >       Anyone got an idea of whatr is wrong, and more importantly how to
> > fix it?
> 
> sounds like something isn't playing nice.  pull all the drives off of it and
> start adding them back one by one until you get the problem again and there is
> a good chance that you just found your problem. :)
> 
> i say this since a probe-scsi should not be clearing the screen.  that sounds
> like something is bad with the one disk.  also, try putting a serial console on
> it since there is no clearing one of them. :)
> 
> -brin
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Steve Sandau, IS Technician
TMA Bath, Maine
ssandau at bath.tmac.com