Sun help needed... Solved!

From: David Woyciesjes <david.woyciesjes_at_yale.edu>
Date: Sat Apr 27 22:01:31 2002

"Zane H. Healy" wrote:
>
> > > > try to describe the scsi bus and termination.
> > > > do a probe-scsi and a probe-scsi-all...
> > > >
> > > > let me know what that does.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that there is a Sun screwup in the Ultra1 boot ROM such
> > that "probe-scsi" doesn't work right when "auto-boot" is enabled.
> >
> > auto-boot?=false
>
> After turning off auto-boot you need to type 'reset' and hit return, this is
> true on both Ultra 1's and 2's. If the auto-boot is already off, you still
> need to do a 'reset' before doing teh probe-scsi/probe-scsi-all.
>
> Zane

        Well, the RRD42 worked fine externally, so I tried it internally. No
good. So, as I was disconnecting it, the plastic (?) ribbon cable
started to tear away from where it connects to the HDD cage! That would
explain why the PROM never saw any internal SCSI drives!
        Time to stick my CD in a SCSI case...

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