Re: ultra10 cannot see SCSI disk on Sol 9

From: BJ Chippindale (Bruce.NOSPAM.chipLEASEpindale_at_jpl.nasa.gov)
Date: 07/28/03 

Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:13:17 -0700

Not using jumpstart.

Tried booting single user from the CD, there is simply NO way
that Sol 9 sees the disk for formatting.

devfsadm has no result, the drive remains invisible.

I will search for device drivers ( for the disk ? ). This is not
the only system I have that has these problems, what were they
thinking? At least they should document omitted drivers and
tell us where to find them.

Thanks all... any other ideas gratefully accepted, this
is not yet resolved.

respectfully
BJ

sharona wrote:
> BJ Chippindale <Bruce.NOSPAM.chipLEASEpindale@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote in message news:<3F21B219.5020906@jpl.nasa.gov>...
>
>>The hardware is Ultra-10 with the 333 mhz processor and 512 MB
>>The openboot version is 3.31 ( latest )
>>The SCSI controller is the SUN LVD symbios PCI card
>>The SCSI controller is the only one present.
>>The SCSI disk is a Seagate 73 GB disk.
>>
>>At the ok prompt "probe-scsi-all" sees the disk, no problem.
>>
>>boot -r and/or touch reconfigure reboot leave it un-configured
>>in devices and /dev.
>>
>>Booting from CD it is not offered as an installation option. So
>>the process of reconfiguring STILL doesn't get past the ide boot
>>disk, even from the cdrom.
>>
>>Is the only answer to remove the ide hardware, get a SCSI CDROM
>>and build an all SCSI system? Or perhaps I just scrap the system
>>and buy a cheap intel box and install Red-Hat? I am a long-time
>>user and admin for these boxes, but this is ridiculous.
>>
>>respectfully
>>BJ
>
>
> can you boot it single user and run format to format the disk? Do you
> use jumpstart?
>
> Sharona

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