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

[Fabio Miranda Hamburger]

> " 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.


I have the same machine, great box but eats a lot of power with its Sony 
670Watts power supply.

I also have a 73 GB FC-AL disks so you probably should check OBP to know 
if it recognizes it

My .99 cents