The drive is an IBM DNES-309170 ( http://sunsolve.sun.com/ 
handbook_pub/Systems/Example/Devices/DISK_IBM_DNES309170.html ).

I am "pretty sure" that it *should* be target 0, but without the  
"show-children" command working properly, I do not know of another  
way to check it out to be 100% certain. I have not heard the drive  
spin up after issuing the commands at all, but I can only assume that  
the drive must be good, since I can install to it fine booting from  
the floppies, and it was previously one of the drives being used as a  
Mac drive.

Greg

On Jun 5, 2005, at 7:54 AM, Michael wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>> went back to Open Firmware to boot it with 'boot scsi-int/sd@0:0' and
>> i get "can't OPEN scsi-int/sd@0:0" I have tried various other
>> combinations, such as "boot scsi-int/sd@0:0,ofwboot.xcf" and boot
>> "scsi-int/sd@0:0,netbsd-GENERIC" and things like "boot scsi-int/ 
>> sd@0:.
>> \ofwboot.xcf" and every other thing I could think of or find in the
>> INSTALL but nothing seems to work...
>>
>
> Are you absolutely sure that your disk is target 0 ? I spent a day  
> with pointless hacking, swearing and tearing my hair out because my  
> Ultra 10 wouldn't boot after installing until I finally found that  
> my disk was target 1 for some reason, not 0 as I assumed.
>
> And - what kind of disk is it? One of the good, old, indestructible  
> Seagate Barracuda drives? These take a while to initialize and  
> Apple's OF doesn't bother waiting for them - it just throws a  
> "can't OPEN". In this case just retry a couple of times ( and  
> listen for the disk to spin up ).
>
> have fun
> Michael
>