Hi, try on the OBP an probe-scsi-all. If you see all of your drives scsi will be OK.
there is some domcumentation for SS5; http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Workstation_Products/W orkstations/SPARCstation_Workstations/ by Reinhold Mit freundlichen Gr��en Reinhold Farsch HVBInfo GmbH Abt. INF5M2 - Unix Systeme | Resistance is futile | > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Thomas Bishop [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet am: Montag, 6. Mai 2002 12:43 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: [suse-sparc] External SCSI > > Hello, > Finally got SuSE7.3 for sparc......very nice! I am in awe of the amount > of > effort and dedication involved in producing such a product. X86 or Sparc, > > SuSE is the best. > > Allow me to show my newbiness/ignorance: > > I have an ss5 with 64M ram, 110mHz., cdrom, floppy. Suse is installed on > an > IBM 4.2G internal scsi drive (/dev/sda). No probs there. However I also > have three other 2.1G drives that I wish to put to use. When I add one > internally (shows as /dev/sdb), it is no problem. I have used the drive > holder and scsi backplane from a parts machine to house the other two > drives > externally. When I plug this contraption into the scsi port on the back of > > the ss5, the machine locks. I also can't start up linux when I boot with > these drives already attached. I thought I was making the equivalent of a > > 411 external drive holder when I did this. Something must be different. > It's my understanding that the backplane provides termination? Do I need > to > do *something* with ID's? And how? None of the four drives seem to have > any > jumpers set. I really could use some pointers to docs, or help before I > get > any deeper or blow something up! Gotta go to work, but I'll respond to > any > replies this P.M.. > Thanks, > Tom > -- > TRBishop > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SuSE 7.3 Pro > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
