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Old 01-16-2008, 12:58 PM
WilliamREMOVEWyattTHIS
 
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Default Re: U5 SCSI

Levente KOVACS wrote:
>
>>Ultra 1 uses SCA disks and the backplane has the required terminator.
>>The SCA drives are not self-terminated.

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> My box has auto terminator inside. Ther is 2 leds indicating
> termination. These are external boxes, not internal disk drives.


In your original post, you said that you did a probe-scsi "but nothing
happened." Did the machine hang? If so, you have to "reset" at the boot
prompt, but not let the system boot past the initial logo, so that the
SCSI bus is in an initialized stat (you type the chars after the ">"):

ok
> setenv auto-boot? false
> reset

[ after reinit takes place ]
> probe-scsi-all

[... should get full probe output ...]
> setenv auto-boot? true
> boot -r


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