Re: Ultra 1 E broken ?

From: Luke Th. Bullock (nospam|lucc_at_alge.anart.no)
Date: 07/12/03 

Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 19:17:50 +0000 (UTC)

The Guru Jay <tictac@cox.net> obviously wrote:
>heya guys. im a solaris newbie id say. not much experience. got a
>ultra 1 a couple months back and ive been messing with it. someone
>told me that the drives support how swap as long as you stop the
>system and sync. now that ive done this.. my box fails to boot.

>when i try and reinstall solaris it tells me that it cant format the
>drive.

>now for some reason when i try to boot at all i get..

>ok> boot -s cdrom
>Boot Device: /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@0,0 File and args: -s cdrom
>Illegal Instruction

>ok> boot cdrom
>Boot Device: /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@0,0 File and args:
>Illegal Instruction

>ok> boot
>Boot Device: disk File and args:
>Illegal Instruction

>somethings ive done to test the situation..

>ok> test-all
>Testing /SUNW,ffb@1e,0
>Selftest failed, Returned code=4026718012
>Illegal Instruction

>any ideas? bad hardware some where?

>Thanks,
>Jay

 Check your SCSII ids. And also if the chain is terminated. 

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