Re: U60, DVD player, and hard drive

michael masterson wrote:
> I did read that, but only saw there were more messages after I responded
> to yours.
> 
> does the box boot up with the three drives installed, when not booting
> from the dvd?
> 
	Yes. if I let it do its default boot (boot disk), it would be business 
as usual.

> The internal bus should be terminated independent of the dvd drive,
> whether it's installed or not.
>
	Then, there should be no excuse that my probe-scsi-all command would 
not report c0t0 while probe-scsi did.

> you might have a sca backplane issue, though that's unusual.
> 
	I hope not, but if that is the case, would the backplane off a U30 
work? If not, I am not against making my own... specially if I do one 
with 3 connectors. =)

> 
> Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>> michael masterson wrote:
>>> nope, they're both on c0, the external is a different scsi bus.
>>>
>>> c0t0 and c0t1 are the internal disks, c0t6 should be the internal
>>> optical drive, and that's what it says it's booting from, one of your
>>> disks looks like it's mucking up the bus.
>>>
>>     I do not know if you have following the thread, but I tried to
>> remove one of the hard drives and then boot from the dvd with similar
>> results. Only way I could boot off the dvd was to remove both of the
>> drives. Then, in my last reply, I moved the dvd to the external chain.
>> It booted with both HDs but then it did not see c0t0. I wonder if it
>> is because I did not terminate the chain where the optical drive used
>> to be. This is the show as far as I know.
>>
>>> Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>>>>     Something on this show does not make sense to me: I was going to
>>>> upgrade the Solaris 10 version in my Ultra 60. So, I slap the DVD I
>>>> burned into the drive, boot the machine up, and tell it to boot off the
>>>> dvd just like I did it the last time. But the outcome is rather
>>>> different:
>>>>
>>>> {0} ok boot cdrom
>>>> Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@6,0:f  File and args:
>>>> Can't open boot device
>>>>
>>>> {0}
>>>> Fine, I thought, so I tried to boot using the Solaris 10 DVD I used to
>>>> install the OS years ago. I had the very same outcome. Then, out of the
>>>> blue, I pulled out both hard drives and tried again. This time it
>>>> actually started fine:
>>>>
>>>> {0} ok boot cdrom
>>>> Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@6,0:f  File and args: SunOS
>>>> Release 5.10 Version Generic_137137-09 64-bit
>>>> Copyright 1983-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>>>> Use is subject to license terms.
>>>> Configuring devices.
>>>> Using RPC Bootparams for network configuration information.
>>>> Attempting to configure interface qfe3...
>>>> NOTICE: SUNW,qfe3: No response from Ethernet network : Link Down -
>>>> cable
>>>> proble?
>>>> Skipped interface qfe3
>>>> Attempting to configure interface qfe2...
>>>> NOTICE: SUNW,qfe2: No response from Ethernet network : Link Down -
>>>> cable
>>>> proble?
>>>> NOTICE: SUNW,qfe2: No response from Ethernet network : Link Down -
>>>> cable
>>>> proble?
>>>> Skipped interface qfe2
>>>> Attempting to configure interface qfe1...
>>>>
>>>> Am I missing something here? To me, it does not make sense that the dvd
>>>> player gets annoyed when I slap one of the hard drives in the machine.
>>>> AFAIK, the hard drives and the CD/DVD/whatever are in two distinct scsi
>>>> chains.
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