[Suns-at-Home] Sunblade 1000 doesn't detect FCAL disk!

[Craig Dewick]

Hi everyone,

I am running this system as a SunBlade 1000 now. Really nice hardware, but 
it isn't seeing the brand new 73 GB FCAL disk I put into it. At present 
I'm running the machine off the older 73 GB 80-pin SCSI disk mounted in an 
external box. Kinda klunky. 8-)

Anyway, I am fairly confident that when I put the FCAL disk in, all the 
cables, etc. connecting the FCAL slots to the system board were in place, 
and I've got all the Solaris 9 software packages pertaining to FCAL 
devices installed.

Would there be anything else which would prevent an otherwise brand-new 
FCAL disk from being detected? It doesn't show up with a 'probe-scsi' or 
'probe-scsi-all' command from the OBP, and the Solaris 'format' command 
doesn't see it either.

I will be installing more RAM into the system soon so I'll have another 
look inside to check for missing or unplugged cables, but failing that, is 
there anything else I should be checking? I don't at present have another 
FCAL drive to compare against the existing one, otherwise I'd do some 
comparison testing to see if it's the drive and not the system itself.

If you could think of something else to check that would be great!

Thanks in advance,

Craig.

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