Subject: Re: hardware help: SCA drives in SparcStation5
To: Peter Eisch <peter@boku.net>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/26/2002 19:00:26
oops- right, I forgot that the SS5 had these


On Sun, 26 May 2002, Peter Eisch wrote:

> 
> top drive bay is fixed at scsi id 1, bottom is 3.
> 
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> On Mon, 27 May 2002, henry nelson wrote:
> 
> > I picked up a SparcStation 5 (Sun model #544) and 2, 2GB Seagate ST32550WC
> > drives to put in it.  I've never used "SCA" drives before, and realized
> > that I don't know how to configure the SCSI IDs.  Could anyone point me
> > to a very precise "howto" article on installing such drives?  So far all
> > I've found is "drive IDs are set through the SCA-compatible backplane, and
> > not by the ID jumpers on the hard drive," but I have no idea what this
> > means.  TIA.
> >
> > henry nelson
> >
> > (I'm assuming NetBSD1.5.3/sparc-sun4m will install smoothly on this machine
> > from install floppies.  Would appreciate pointers if there are some road
> > blocks to be expected.  Also, thanks much.)
> >
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