From: Thomas Bishop <tb64710@alltel.net> Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 05:43:15 -0500 Message-Id: <20020506114552.UQFG18255.mta02-srv.alltel.net@there> Subject: [suse-sparc] External SCSI
Hello,
Finally got SuSE7.3 for sparc......very nice! I am in awe of the amount of
effort and dedication involved in producing such a product. X86 or Sparc,
SuSE is the best.
Allow me to show my newbiness/ignorance:
I have an ss5 with 64M ram, 110mHz., cdrom, floppy. Suse is installed on an
IBM 4.2G internal scsi drive (/dev/sda). No probs there. However I also
have three other 2.1G drives that I wish to put to use. When I add one
internally (shows as /dev/sdb), it is no problem. I have used the drive
holder and scsi backplane from a parts machine to house the other two drives
externally. When I plug this contraption into the scsi port on the back of
the ss5, the machine locks. I also can't start up linux when I boot with
these drives already attached. I thought I was making the equivalent of a
411 external drive holder when I did this. Something must be different.
It's my understanding that the backplane provides termination? Do I need to
do *something* with ID's? And how? None of the four drives seem to have any
jumpers set. I really could use some pointers to docs, or help before I get
any deeper or blow something up! Gotta go to work, but I'll respond to any
replies this P.M..
Thanks,
Tom
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