Re: HP9000 K200 new disks -> new problems ... 8-|

Mark Kettenis <[email protected]> Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:34:34 +0100 (CET)
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.hppa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:00:50 -0500 (EST)
> From: Rob Sciuk <[email protected]>
> 
> As two of the older 4gb drives were failing the startup tests, I decided 
> to replace them with some Seagate 36G 68pin scsi's (not new but tested 
> ok), and did so. While the addresses are set (6,5,4,3) just as the 
> originals were, it appears that there must be some options which need to 
> be set, as they are all failing the start as follows in the dmesg below. 
> As they are consisten, I figure fix one, fix them all, but I'm not 
> entirely sure where to start.

Be careful.  I think the K-class servers take HVD drives, and your 36G
drives may be LVD.  Using LVD drives on a HVD controller is likely to
ruin the drives and/or controller.