Re: Sparc possibly broken

[Frank WiÃmann <frank.wissmann41%web.de@localhost>]

Hi, Bertrand!

BERTRAND Joel schrieb:
> Frank WiÃmann a Ãcrit :
> > khaqq schrieb:
> > > On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:03:44 +0100
> > > Frank WiÃmann <frank.wissmann41%web.de@localhost> wrote:
> > >
> > > > BERTRAND Joel schrieb:
> > > > > Frank WiÃmann a Ãcrit :
> > > > > > Hi, all!
> > > > > > After having got lots of help with my last problem, at first I 
> > > > > > like to
> > > > > > thank you all.
> > > > > > Here is a new one.
> > > > > > I have bought some new SCA disks which are not recognized by my SS5
> > > > > > and
> > > > > > the "probe-scsi-all"-command. It seems not to be possible that all
> > > > > > four
> > > > > > disks used are broken. How can I verify this? Or how can I test if 
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > SCSI-Controller of the SS5 is broken?
> > > > > Do you have a CDROM unit to test ? Is your chain terminated ?
> > > > > If your chain is terminated, I believe that your ESP chip is broken 
> > > > > :-(
> > > > Well, when I test it the cdrom device shows up with unit number 6 and
> > > > that
> > > > is OK. At first the bus wasn't terminated correctly but I changed
> > > > that and
> > > > it comes up with the same results. So what does this mean? Shall I
> > > > throw it away? I have no other device to test the disks.
> > >
> > > How big are these drives?
> > >
> > > khaqq
> >
> > They are 36 GB drives from HP.
>
>     Check if there is a jumper to force single ended SCSI. I use two 300 
> GB disks in one of my SS20 without any trouble. If you can see your 
> CDROM drive on SCSI chain, your ESP chip works.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     JKB

One of the drives has a jumper with (when I count right) 12 pins of 
which 4 are covered by the jumper. Seen from the front they are the 
leftmost ones.

HTH

Frank

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