AW: [suse-sparc] External SCSI

Reinhold.Farsch_at_HVBInfo.com
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 13:55:50 CEST

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    From: Reinhold.Farsch@HVBInfo.com
    Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 13:55:50 +0200 
    Subject: AW: [suse-sparc] External SCSI
    

    Hi,
    try on the OBP an probe-scsi-all. If you see all of your drives scsi will be
    OK.

    there is some domcumentation for SS5;
    http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Workstation_Products/W
    orkstations/SPARCstation_Workstations/

    by
    Reinhold

    Mit freundlichen Grüßen

     Reinhold Farsch

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    > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
    > Von: Thomas Bishop [SMTP:tb64710@alltel.net]
    > Gesendet am: Montag, 6. Mai 2002 12:43
    > An: suse-sparc@suse.com
    > Betreff: [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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