[rescue] Ultra 1E: "unexpected message in 2"

[Mike Nicewonger]

I've had similar issues with Compaq firmwared drives in Sun boxen.  
Unless you can download a firmware tool from the seize-gate web site  
methinks you are SOL.

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Mike N

On Jul 22, 2005, at 6:01 PM, Michael-John Turner wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm trying to replace the 4G disks in my Ultra 1E/170 with a 9G SCA  
> Seagate
> Cheetah (ST39102LC). When I power on the machine and do a probe-scsi,  
> I get
> the following:
> ok probe-scsi
> unexpected message in 2
>
> The disk was in my SGI O2 for a while and worked fine. Interestingly,  
> it
> gives the same error message in my Ultra 2. It gives the error whether  
> the
> SE jumper is shorted or not (I've also tried with parity disabled, but  
> that
> makes no difference).
>
> I've done some Googling and found the following:
> http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/sunmanagers/2001-August/ 
> 005886.html
> It suggest that the drive firmware may be to blame (my drive is IBM  
> branded
> with the self-same B201 firmware and probably came from some PeeCee
> "server").
>
> Any thoughts on this? Is there any way I can replace the firmware?  
> (I've
> Googled but not had much luck).