From: Riddoch, John E SITI-ITDSEP3 (John.E.Riddoch@is.shell.com)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 10:44:54 EDT
Sorry for the delay in replying, but I haven't had a chance to try some of
the fixes.
I had a total of four responses, which gave the following hints:
1. Make sure it's terminated (the most common reply)
2. Make sure it's differential SCSI
3. Try a different SCSI ID
WRT termination, it worked fine on the Ultra 1, but that may or may not be
entirely relevant as the Sbus SCSI card it has may be more forgiving.
However, Baranyai Pal gave me a link to the 3590 installation guide which
said I should terminate the second port on the drive which I hadn't done.
However, that made no difference (yes, it was a diff. SCSI terminator).
It'd definately differential SCSI, and this has been confirmed as it's not
seen by either a SE SCSI card or the onboard SCSI of the Ultra 60.
I did try a different SCSI ID, but it didn't help.
Finally, I also tried using the second port on the 3590, but that didn't
help either.
I also tried booting up the Ultra 60 as boot -rs and got the following
error:
WARNING: /pci@1f,2000/scsi@1,1 (glm3):
Disconnected command timeout for Target 3.0
This came up a few times, presumably when the U60 was trying to initialise
the tape drive.
As an aside, we have a similar tape drive attached to an E250 with a similar
setup which worked without any special tweaking.
So, does anyone have any other ideas?
-----Original Message-----
From: Riddoch, John E SITI-ITDSEP3
Sent: 26 July 2002 16:09
To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
Subject: Attaching IBM 3590 to Ultra 60
We're trying to move a system from it's existing Ultra 1 (Solaris 2.6) to an
Ultra 60 (Solaris 8). Attached to the system are an Exabyte tape drive, an
IBM 3590 tape drive and a D1000.
While the D1000 and Exabyte work perfectly, the 3590 isn't recognized;
running probe-scsi-all at the PROM returns:
Fatal SCSI error at script address 10 Unexpected disconnect.
This line appears twice under the path name of the SCSI card. Booting up
Solaris doesn't help, and the device doesn't appear under /dev/rmt (even
after boot -r).
We're trying to attach this with a PCI dual differential SCSI card. We've
tried it in both ports on the card with the same results. The D1000 works
fine, reporting back all its disks under probe-scsi-all.
As far as cabling goes, we've tried a VHDCI-HD68 connector (direct to the
system) and a VHDCI-HD68 adapter to attach to the existing HD68-HD68 cable.
Neither option works, giving the error above.
The Ultra 1 sees the drive fine if we reconnect.
In case it's relevant the Ultra 60's OBP is at 3.23.
Anyone have any ideas? Google shows a few things related to that error, but
nothing which seems appropriate.
Summary as usual...
John Riddoch
Unix Project Engineer
Shell Information Technology International Limited
Loirston House, Wellington Road, Altens, Aberdeen AB12 3BH
Tel: +44(0)1224 21 7660 Fax: 7502
Email: John.E.Riddoch@is.shell.com
Internet: http://www.shell.com
John Riddoch
Unix Project Engineer
Shell Information Technology International Limited
Loirston House, Wellington Road, Altens, Aberdeen AB12 3BH
Tel: +44(0)1224 21 7660 Fax: 7502
Email: John.E.Riddoch@is.shell.com
Internet: http://www.shell.com
_______________________________________________
sunmanagers mailing list
sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Wed Apr 09 2008 - 23:24:46 EDT