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Author: Thomas Cameron
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Subject: SCSI issue
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.
--
Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Cameron Technical Services, Inc.
http://www.camerontech.com/
(512) 454-3200
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Wultsch" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 1:28 AM
Subject: SCSI issue


> 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.
>
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