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Done this?
at OK-prompt, type: 'probe-scsi-all'

hth
©harlie

On Mon, April 11, 2005 8:14, Zhang Weiwu said:
> Hello. I just get an extra old SCSI 8GB HDD and I wish to use it on my
> sparc U2 box.
>
> There are two slots on the side of U2. I found either two HDD (the
> original one and the extra one I got today), when pluged into the second
> slot, would not be detected by probe-scsi, nor in dmesg. However, either
> HDD, when pluged into first slot, recognize as device 0,0,0.
>
> So far it seems enough to tell the second slot is broken/not
> functioning. But is there possibly a hidden switch or jump that could
> cause second slot de-activated or disabled?
>
> Thank you:)
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'probe-scsi-all' shouldn't make a difference in this case as
'probe-scsi' will show (only) the built-in controller anyway.
If 'probe-scsi' only shows one disk (and a cd-rom) no matter which disk
you plug into whichever slot then perhaps the second slot is broken or
some physical problem prevents it from seating properly. This will not
be solvable in Linux if the boot prom can't see the device.
I'm not aware of any way to selectively disable only one disk slot..
perhaps someone more knowledgeable can comment but I'd still suspect bad
seating or broken socket.
Didn't you have other SCSI problems some time ago Zhang? perhaps the
onboard SCSI controller is not 100% after all?

cheers,
Chris.

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 16:23 +0200, Charlie Gehlin wrote:
> Done this?
> at OK-prompt, type: 'probe-scsi-all'
>
> hth
> ©harlie
>
> On Mon, April 11, 2005 8:14, Zhang Weiwu said:
> > Hello. I just get an extra old SCSI 8GB HDD and I wish to use it on my
> > sparc U2 box.
> >
> > There are two slots on the side of U2. I found either two HDD (the
> > original one and the extra one I got today), when pluged into the second
> > slot, would not be detected by probe-scsi, nor in dmesg. However, either
> > HDD, when pluged into first slot, recognize as device 0,0,0.
> >
> > So far it seems enough to tell the second slot is broken/not
> > functioning. But is there possibly a hidden switch or jump that could
> > cause second slot de-activated or disabled?
> >
> > Thank you:)
> > --
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> >
> >
>
>
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