AW: External SCSI

Hi,
try on the OBP an probe-scsi-all. If you see all of your drives scsi will be
OK.

there is some domcumentation for SS5;
http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Workstation_Products/W
orkstations/SPARCstation_Workstations/

by
Reinhold

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

 Reinhold Farsch


   HVBInfo GmbH
   Abt. INF5M2 - Unix Systeme

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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:	Thomas Bishop [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Gesendet am:	Montag, 6. Mai 2002 12:43
> An:	[email protected]
> Betreff:	[suse-sparc] External SCSI
> 
> Hello,
> Finally got SuSE7.3 for sparc......very nice!  I am in awe of the amount
> of 
> effort and dedication involved in producing such a product.  X86 or Sparc,
> 
> SuSE is the best.
> 
> Allow me to show my newbiness/ignorance:
> 
> I have an ss5 with 64M ram, 110mHz., cdrom, floppy.  Suse is installed on
> an 
> IBM 4.2G internal scsi drive (/dev/sda).  No probs there.  However I also 
> have three other 2.1G drives that I wish to put to use.  When I add one 
> internally (shows as /dev/sdb), it is no problem.  I have used the drive 
> holder and scsi backplane from a parts machine to house the other two
> drives 
> externally. When I plug this contraption into the scsi port on the back of
> 
> the ss5, the machine locks.  I also can't start up linux when I boot with 
> these drives already attached.  I thought I was making the equivalent of a
> 
> 411 external drive holder when I did this.  Something must be different.  
> It's my understanding that the backplane provides termination?  Do I need
> to 
> do *something* with ID's?  And how?  None of the four drives seem to have
> any 
> jumpers set.  I really could use some pointers to docs, or help before I
> get 
> any deeper or blow something up!  Gotta go to work, but I'll respond to
> any 
> replies this P.M..
> Thanks,
> Tom
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