Subject: Re: Sparc Classic Install
To: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@burghcom.com>
From: Brian Hechinger <wonko@arkham.ws>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/20/2001 09:57:43
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 03:01:34AM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> 
> 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 ;-)

99.9% chance termination is wrong of the drive is dead.  spin up is irrelevant
for IDENT since all IDENT does is ask the drives firmware to hand it the string
it has for this purpose, the drive does not need to be spinning to do that.

-brian