Continuing install woes

From: Thomas Schmid (Thomas.Schmid@ascom.ch)
Date: Thu May 10 2001 - 08:34:32 PDT

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    From: "Thomas Schmid" <Thomas.Schmid@ascom.ch>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 17:34:32 +0200
Message-ID: <OFF467B95B.20FF7E95-ONC1256A48.00537CC4@hasler.ascom.ch>
Subject: Continuing install woes

    Hi Bob,

    difficult....I'm new to SPARC myself, but running SuSE 7.1 successfully
    (more or less) on a LX and a SS5.

    I had problems with the SCSI subsystem as well, but could install the
    SuSE over NFS (on CDROM, the installation crashed with a SCSI Error
    while reding the CD-ROM)

    What type of Seagate disk is it ? Use Seagate Homepage for data
    sheets on old disks: http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/

    If this is a Seagate ST12400N: (2GB)
    http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/iguides/scsi/hawk2gde.pdf

    - Does the disk terminate the SCSI bus ?
    -> Jumper J2, TE is ON (=installed), I think it should be installed
    because if you have only the disk and the scsi-controller, both
    have to do the end-termination of the scsi-bus

    If your classic is like my LX, your harddisk sould be jumpered
    for "Parity ON" and also for "Motor Enable ON":

    -> Jumper J2, PE installed = "Parity ON" lets the SCSI bus use parity
    with
    the data transfers, on the LX the disks had "Parity ON", on the SS5 not.

    -> Jumper J2, ME installed, DS not installed = "Motor Enable ON"
    lets the host spin up the disk, but does not delay the spin (only used
    for mutiple drives)

    Hope it helps
    Thomas

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