>so, i have a couple of 5000's with two RZ25.  when booting after a
>power cycle, i often get from the non-boot disk:
>
>rz2: not ready

What kind of 5000s?  5000/200s (or TC option scsi cards?)

there's a known problem Michael hitch was looking at.  There may be a
pullup request pending; i dont know if it already got processed.


>(i think that's the error; i don't have access to the console right
>now).  this generally causes fsck to fail cuz it can't find the
>partition on that disk, and then i type /sbin/reboot at the prompt,
>and this time it works.  it seems as if the rz driver is not giving
>the disk long enough to spin up?  it only happens when the drive is
>not spun up before the boot begins.

i've seen some machines formerly running ultrix that had,  um,
   boot -z 10 3/rzN

as the boot string. The -z 10 causes a wait of 10 seconds for the
drive to spin up.  -z 15 would wait 15 seconds, etc.