Subject: Re: Drive formatting...
To: Allan 'Norm' Crain <allanc@idea-inc.com>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/07/1997 20:02:46
On January 7, you wrote:
> I'm not entirely sure that the SCSI controller is connected to the drive I
> have in there, though. After an hour or so of digging around inside, I managed
> to locate a ribbon cable which seems to connect directly to the back of the
> backplane. I'm confused as to how this could (if it does at all) connect to
> the SCSI card... Perhaps NetBSD doesn't know how to cope with the card that I
> have? I'd hate to learn that I need to somehow find myself a copy of SunOS
> after I've spent all this time working on getting NetBSD working. :) 

  This is a standard Sun SCSI2 or SCSI3 card...The P2 connector
carries the SCSI signals, and (assuming the card is in the slot with
the connector on the other side) you pick them up wiht that ribbon
cable.

                                -Dave McGuire
                                 mcguire@neurotica.com