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

[Mike Pepe]

Craig Dewick wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Is that a Sun FCAL disk, or just a generic one you got from somewhere?

There are a number of potential firmware-related issues that might cause 
that behavior. Knowing what drive it is would be the first step. Of 
course that assumes that physically and electrically everything is good 
to go.

-Mike