[Suns-at-Home] Fried SCSI controller?

ra2710 ra2710@gmail.com
Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:21:56 -0800


Or do 'obdig' from ok prompt and run through menu... " This is a hidden sun 
nvram command, depend on the f/w ver."
-robert astin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cody Swanson" <mailinglists@sysop.ca>
To: <thefinn@altern.org>
Cc: <suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Suns-at-Home] Fried SCSI controller?


> On a sun system if you probe the scsi bus after a halt you will get a bus 
> error. Try running a test scsi after a cold boot before the OS loads.
>
>
> thefinn@altern.org wrote:
>> Hi all.
>> I got a Sun Enterprise 220R (2 X UltraSPARC-II 450MHz), with a pair of 
>> disks to play with...  During boot I get "Bus fault" errors. The same 
>> occurs if I stop the OS and test the SCSI subsystem. I am not sure it's a 
>> disk/cable or controller (fried chip?) related problem.
>>
>> [root@db-1 root]# halt
>> syncing file systems... done
>> Program terminated
>> {0} ok test scsi
>> Bus fault
>> Bus fault
>> Bus fault
>> ...
>>
>> I tried to disconnect the CDROM and to swap disks, but nothing changes.
>>  What do you think? Thanks!
>>
>> --Tony
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