Sparc Help

[George Toft]

Hi Gary,

I did just that.  The going price to 2GB drives on e-bay is $26-35
(for this week, anyway).

George


Gary Nichols wrote:
> 
> I just realized I went off on a tangent and didn't answer your original
> question.
> 
> The drive is probably bad - my Sparc came with a Macrapolis drive in it, and
> Solaris only recognized it 50% of the time.  Do yourself a HUGE favor and
> rip the drive out and use it as a paperweight.  Go on ebay and get yourself
> a nicer drive.  They are usually between $10 and $25.
> 
> ~Gary
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Gary
> Nichols
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 10:36 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: RE: Sparc Help
> 
> Most recent x86-ish scsi bios's let you configure which id to boot from.
> For example, on an Adaptec 2940U2W you can CTRL-A at boot and change the
> boot id from 0 to whatever.
> 
> Sun on the otherhand boots the drive from the eprom.  You have to tell the
> eprom which device you're booting from.
> 
> Read more here, as it'll save me pages and pages of typing. :-)
> http://docs.sun.com/ab2/coll.40.6/REFMAN1M/@Ab2PageView/60370?DwebQuery=scsi
> +OR+boot&oqt=scsi+boot&Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1
> 
> Look at 'boot-device'. :)
> 
> ~Gary
> Have Sparc will travel
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of David
> A. Sinck
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 8:05 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Sparc Help
> 
> \_ SMTP quoth George Toft on 3/22/2001 23:18 as having spake thusly:
> \_
> \_ I have a Sparc2 with Red Hat 5.2 installed.  The hard drive is correctly
> \_ identified if I type "probe-scsi" at the prom ok prompt, but it hangs
> \_ when I try to boot from the drive.
> \_
> \_ I suspect a bad drive.  It spins up, prom identifies it, but the Red
> \_ Hat installer won't read from it.  I've set the jumper for termination,
> \_ and that did nothing.
> 
> Is it scsi id 0?  At least in x86 land, your boot drive needs to be
> zero.  Unless that's changed in the real world...it hasn't changed in
> mine.  :-)
> 
> If you have another scsi chain handy, plug the drive into it and see
> what kind of mileage you get.  I once recovered data off of NTFS this
> way.  The box cratered (suprise), I chained the drive into my dual
> boot...NT wedged (suprise [1]) so I said, wtf, let's give the dev
> kernel w/ NTFS support a whirl..."would you like fries with that
> data?"  They let me crow about how my free replacement was better for
> about a week vefore they told me they had had enough of it.
> 
> David
> [1] This is probably on account of NT being stupid and auto labeling
> its drives for you in a bass ackwards way: it goes breadth first
> across the "hard" disk drives, then comes back for more.
> 
> eg: one drive, the null span:
> c: hda1, d: hda2, e: hda3  ... x: cdrom
> 
> eg: two drives:
> c: hda1, d: hdb1, e: hda2, f: hdb2, ... x: cdrom
> 
> eg: three drives:
> c: hda1, d: hdb1, e: hdc1, .... x: cdrom
> 
> So what's the problem, I hear you ask?  What if you don't install your
> OS on C:?  I had it on D:, with apps/transfer space on C:.  With the
> second drive in there... D: wasn't hda2 any more it was hdb1...no OS
> found, *poof* bluescreen.
> 
> I actually figured this out sometime later as I was installing NT on a
> different box in another company.... a box with a zip drive.  Install
> didn't see it, and I did the OS on D: again.  Service pack install to
> latest and greatest saw it...and added it as hdb, of "hard" disk
> nature (as opposed to cd drives which are ignored for this).  Now all
> of a sudden, no boot after service pack install, also because D:
> wasn't pointing to hda2 anymore.
> 
> Brainchild idea that spanning idea was.  *sigh*
> 
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