From: dominic christopher (dominicfree@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 20 2003 - 08:50:38 EDT
> dear managers,
>
> This is regarding the Installation of three new DS20
> E's
> These new servers have come with six bay drive slots
> ,
> and ,2*36 GB Hdds each , these
> HDD's are (3R-A3838-AA) ,36GB,10K rpm,U320.
> On arrival these were connected to the KZPCA-AA
> ,SCSI card in the machine .
> OS installs fine and system is OK as long as the
> Disks are connected to this
> controller .
>
> However we face a problem when the HDD BAY is
> connected to the Onboard SCSI
> controller's connectors (SCSI bus A or SCSI bus
> B),when this is done , the
> HDDS are shown as DKB0,DKB1 or DKC0,DKC1 at SRM
> prompt (>>>), but if we try
> to install OS on them ,the OS cannot detect them.
> In Tru64 4.0F during installation "finder -q"
> failure :fatal error,
> and comes to single user mode , at single user
> mode
> if i give scu scan & scu show
> it does not show any of the HDD's,similarly on
> trying 5.0A , the system says that
> there are no HDDs connected to the system .
>
> I can install OS on the same HDDs,without any
> problem if i connect them to KCPCA-AA or
> KZPBA.
>
> Now customer has realised that they had not
> ordered
> for internal DAT drives ,and
> are planning to use internal DAT drives on these
> machines .
>
> If the internal DAT drives are to be connected to
> the KZPCA card , we will have to
> make the HDD's work on the onboard SCSI
> controller.
> or
> If the DAT drive works on the Onboard SCSI cntrler
> ,then no change is required since
> the HDD's can remain cinnected to the existing
> KZPCA
> which came with the system .
>
> Is this some NHD issue ?
>
> regrds
> Dominic
>
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