All, Try looking up the jumper'ing information for the drive... There is probably a delay for spinning the drive up at boot (or some such nonsense).
Regards, Ken On Jun 21, 10:38pm, Paul Jakma wrote: > Subject: RE: Problems with multiple harddisks on my Indigo2 > On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Ian Chilton wrote: > > > I have an SGI Indy, with 2 internal hard disks, a 4GB and a 1GB > > > > I get the same thing! > > > > > > > Also I'm getting a message > > > sc1,2,0: cmd=0x12 timeout after 2 sec. Resetting SCSI bus > > > > I started getting this when I added the 2nd HD (1GB). > > > > fwiw, i got this too on my indy when i added a Quantum Empire 1GB. > > >From cold boot the PROM doesn't recognise the second disk, but IRIX > does (PROM gives me the exact same error message as the one you wrote > above - but prints it twice). If i halt back to PROM then the PROM > does see the second disk. (and only prints that error message once) > > my theories are: > > 1. PROM controller driver is minimal and doesn't init the > controller/disks properly whereas the IRIX driver does. > > 2. disk spin up times.. ?? > > 3. Perhaps cause the outboard SCSI port is not terminated. (least not > on my indy) > > > > -- > Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt > ------------------------------------------- > Fortune: > Give me a fish and I will eat today. > > Teach me to fish and I will eat forever. >-- End of excerpt from Paul Jakma
