On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:52:16PM -0800, Niall Parker wrote: > Kinda prompted by Ivan's intro, but anyone can feel free to advise ;) > > Is there anything special I need to account for to use a SCSI drive from > a PC on a SPARC IPX ? I'm just getting started with an old IPX, and while the > original 428 MB drive works fine, I can't get either of a couple of ex-PC > SCSI drives to work yet. > > All of the drives are Seagates, and I've followed the doc's to set them up > in an equivalent fashion (I think), yet after the kernel boots, the new drives > both have trouble spinning up (and time out eventually). I think I have the > terminators worked out (the drive controllers are recognized).
Some (most?) scsi disks have a jumper to make them spin up on power-on. Some systems require this to be set. Frank > > I note that the original disk has a SUN428 show up in drive description, is > there something specific about the controller in a Sun supplied drive as > opposed to a generic unit from Seagate ? > > Pointers/advice appreciated, thanks. > > ... Niall > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
