Subject: Re: Unrecognized drives on DS3100
To: None <agrier@poofy.goof.com>
From: John Darrow <John.P.Darrow@wheaton.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/19/1999 19:54:52
>> We have run into one problem, however:  NetBSD (either release-branch
>> kernels or -current ones) fails to detect one of the drives hooked up to
>> the machine.  After it detects rz0, the drive light on the second drive
>> flickers a little, but NetBSD doesn't detect an rz1.

>I have a similar problem on my /240 -- I have four drives hooked to it,
>(1 x RZ57, 3 x MICROP 1924,) and at cold boot, the SCSI probe routines
>spin all the drives up, but only one of the Micropolis drives is
>recognized.  Once the drives are all spun up, they're all detected on
>reboot... I always figured it was because I was running and old (1.4)
>kernel, but maybe there are still some timing issues.
>you might want to see if the "reboot twice" trick works.

Nope, it's not a spin-up problem.  Cold boot, warm boot, reboot after weeks
of uptime, always the same thing - PROM and Ultrix find rz0 and rz1, NetBSD
only finds rz0.

jdarrow

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