pipes@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov (David Pipes ) (09/19/89)
I posted a question about this several weeks ago, and am still looking for help. Thanks to all who have responded so far...My mailer won't talk to most of you. The situation is this: I have a Micropolis 1588 to add to a Sun 4/110. The 4/110 has a SCSI shoebox already, with a cartridge and sd0, the existing 327MB drive. I need to add the new, 760MB (640MB formatted) as sd1. I have added the device files and scrupulously followed the Sun installation instructions. I have added the format info to format.dat ( I am running 4.0). I have cabled the new drive in between the CPU and the shoebox. The terminator is removed from the new drive, and should be present in the old, as that was the only drive previously. The new drive is jumpered to be sd1. When the system boots, it boots from sd0, indicating that the cables are good. The boot reports the new drive (as sd2, although I am told this is normal), and procedes to give the header info, whether or not it is present in format.dat (I have tried it both ways). When I run format, one of two things happens. Sometimes it will report only sd0 and proceed merrily on its' way. More often, it will spit out 4 messages indicating that it received several unknown signals (interrupts?) and then wait. After the wait, it gives a SDTIMEOUT, citing a MSG_IN (or something similar) and hangs the machine. Has anyone successfully installed this drive on this type of machine under SunOS 4.0? Failing that, any ideas as to what I can do to get this guy up? I have tried varying the id jumper, various format.dat additions, checked the power supply, swapped the internal cables and even tried a second, new drive. All of these changes produced the above results. The vendor, manufacturer and SUN all say I should have no problem with this...what gives? | EMail: pipes@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov David Pipes | | Vox: (301) 286-2248 X X X | | Message contains only my opinions. ======= | | "French is sort of the lingua franca of Europe..." ======= |