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Author: Thomas Cameron
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Subject: SCSI issue
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.
--
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 1:57 AM
Subject: Re: SCSI issue


> 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 .
>
> Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > 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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