Message-Id: <sa6ed67e.054@barr.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:19:24 -0600 From: Stuart Powell <SPOWELL@barr.com> Subject: Troublesome SS10 - Hard Drive Problems During Installation
Hello, everyone.
I have a pair of SS10s here, and would like to build one good one from the
pair. So far, it has a pair of 40MHz CPUs (not a screamer, I know), an
additional 100MBit NIC/SCSI combo, 320MB RAM and a pair of 2.1GB drives
inside. Please bear in mind that I am very new to the Sun platform, having
been an x86 user for the past decade+.
The problem I am having is that neither SuSE7 nor the old Solaris that came
with the box will configure the hard drives. As per the SS10 standard, one
drive is set to ID3, the other is ID1. If I pull either out leaving the
other one in, I get the same errors. The same errors occur on both
machines, so it does not appear to be a hardware fault, but it does look
like a conflict somewhere, or a mis-configuration. Unless the SCSI
controllers in both machines are fried.
In Solaris, Quick Install sees the drives as 0MB and won't install. Expert
Config bombs out when I try to manually configure the drives with the
following error:
ttinstall aborting (caught signal 8)
As for SuSE7, I have been trying both YaST1 and YaST2, both with the same
result. I am able to select my Language and Keyboard options, and even
select the packages in YaST2, but they both abort with errors when they try
to create the partition info on the hard drives. Regardless of the choice
of YaST version, the text portion of the boot sequence spends a lot of time
doing SCSI operations. Some of the errors are as follows:
SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 3) timed out - trying harder
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
esp0: Resetting scsi bus
esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt
esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt
probably an unrecoverable SCSI bus or device hang
When I select <Partitioning> in YaST1 with just one drive present, it
returns an error stating:
No Hard Disk Found
No hard drives were found on your system.
Maybe your hardware was not correctly
recognized by the Linux kernel.
If I type probe-scsi at the ok prompt, it displays the correct number and
type of drives, including the external Plextor CD-ROM 8x I'm booting the
installation CDs from.
These are clean hard drives, by the way. Another machine died on us, and
these are the two drives we pulled out of the replacement unit. I have
also tried removing the NIC/SCSI combo card, and it does not make a
difference.
Any ideas as to how I can make this work would be much appreciated. My
boss is warming to Linux, and I would like to show him its cross-platform
appeal. He is also keen to try porting our in-house Oracle apps between
Sun, NT and Linux versions of Oracle, just to see how well that works.
Thanks,
Stuart.
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