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

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Craig Dewick <cdewick@lios.apana.org.au>
" 
" 
" 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!

dark fiber.  how's your fc-al backplane?  the system handbook says you
have a pci fc adapter in there.  is it possible it's dead?  loose?
dunno if this has socketed gbics [laser/photoreceiver module] but
older ones were notoriously unreliable and short-lived.

i assume you've done a reconfig reboot, but that wouldn't explain the
obp behavior anyway.
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