Odds are, since they are buried inside the Sparc box, that they are not hot 
swappable.

> Turns out that the issue with it hanging was that of one the hard drives 
> needing to be remounted. BTW are those things hot-swapable?
> 
> I now have the hd's at 1 and 3, and the cdrom at 5. Is it worth the 
> trouble to get the harddrives to be anything else or will I be good?

>> What does probe-scsi-all tell you?

>>> No joy. I tried seetting as id 5, and it hung. Then I tried id 3, and it
>>> hung again.
>>>
>>> I think i will try to useid4 until I get an os install, then i will pull
>>> the drive.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks a bunch for the help. I feel the same way around as I did around
>>> girls when I was in third grade. EWWWWWWW, they're weird.

>>>> ???
>>>>
>>>> Oh, I see the mistake.  Almost every SCSI device has at least 3 
>>>> pairs of
>>>> jumpers.  To set the ID it is something like this (I am using : for 
>>>> open
>>>> jumpers and I for closed jumpers):
>>>>
>>>> ::: - ID 0
>>>> I:: - ID 1
>>>> :I: - ID 2
>>>> II: - ID 3 (1+2)
>>>> ::I - ID 4
>>>> I:I - ID 5 (1+4)
>>>> :II - ID 6 (2+4)
>>>> III - ID 7 (1+2+4)
>>>>
>>>> See how that works?

>>>>> The cdrom only has the option for 1,2, and 4.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thomas Cameron wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ouch - set them to 0, 1 and 5 and you will be in better shape.  That
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> unit
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> takes 80-pin drives, so you shouldn't need to mess with termination.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>> Cdrom is set to id4,hd are 1 and 3.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A picture of my ghetto sled (I did not have a real sled and did not
>>
>>
>> feel
>>
>>>>>>> like paying for one) is at
>>>>>>> http://www.public.asu.edu/~rwultsch/media/dsc_004.jpg .
>>>>>>>> Look up the installed drives on the vendor's (i.e. Seagate or WD or
>>>>>>>> whatever) web site.  Jumper the first drive to be SCSI ID 0, the
>>
>>
>> second
>>
>>>>>>>> drive to be ID1 and the CD to be SCSI ID 5.  Sparcs don't play nice
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> with
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> a
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> CD which is not SCSI ID 5.
>>>>>>>>> I have a sparc station 20 that I recently bough a cdrom for so 
>>>>>>>>> that
>>
>>
>> I
>>
>>>>>>>>> could install debian linux. At this point there is not a 
>>>>>>>>> functioning
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> os
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>>>> on the computer.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> At the OK prompt when I type "probe scsi" I am told that only the
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> cdrom
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>>>> is detected and then it hangs. On the two hard drives previously
>>>>>>>>> installed there is a total of one jumper in place. On the cdrom no
>>>>>>>>> jumper are in place.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I am sure this is a simple matter of the scsi variant of
>>
>>
>> master/slave
>>
>>>> or
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>>>> something like that, but I would rather not experiment with 
>>>>>>>>> jumpers.