> That is NOT true! It will work with ANY standard SCSI drive that
> obeys the IDENT command, per specification. If "probe-scsi" isn't
> seeing a drive, it's disconnected or dead.

Or termination is wrong, or the drive you're using requires a SCSI bios
that support "spin up" commands, or some other random bizarre crap you're
never going to be able to debug using OpenBoot from 1989 ;-)

The cold truth is that PC-Based controllers tend to have frimware on the
cards that provides better debugging information in this circumstances,
the major exception being Adaptec, which provided little to no helpful
debugging information during the probe up until recent firmware revisions.

Alas, i386 hardware is garbage, and most of the stuff that you can do in
PC-SCSI card BIOS/CMOS should be easily accomplished in the booted O.S.
(like bad sector checks and low-level formatting).

>
> 	Erik <fair@clock.org>
>
>

--Brian

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