Re: External SCSI disks with SS20

2005-10-05 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi. Thanks for your answer. On Wednesday 05 October 2005 20:07, Michael-John Turner wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:59:47PM +0200, Hartwig Atrops wrote: > > Regarding Solaris: In my opinion the default boot disk for Solaris is > > SCSI ID 3. I could not check today, as far as I remember I can

Re: External SCSI disks with SS20

2005-10-05 Thread Michael-John Turner
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:59:47PM +0200, Hartwig Atrops wrote: > Regarding Solaris: In my opinion the default boot disk for Solaris is > SCSI ID 3. I could not check today, as far as I remember I can plug an > additional SCSI disk with ID 0 to a Solaris machine (Ultra 2) without > problems. With L

Re: External SCSI disks with SS20

2005-10-04 Thread Klaus Klein
Hartwig Atrops wrote: Hey, I just discovered that I can switch off my disk array after booting to get rid off that nasty noise :-) Just make sure to avoid then any rescan of the SCSI-bus. Otherwise you're back in the problem zone. ;-) Cheers, Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: External SCSI disks with SS20

2005-10-04 Thread Hartwig Atrops
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 21:59, Hartwig Atrops wrote: > You are right. I modified my silo.conf and inittab - booting from sdd, now > it works - if I switch on my disk array. Hey, I just discovered that I can switch off my disk array after booting to get rid off that nasty noise :-) Hartwig

Re: External SCSI disks with SS20

2005-10-04 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi all. On Tuesday 04 October 2005 12:19, Klaus Klein wrote: > Hartwig Atrops wrote: > >Hi all. > > > >I try to run an external SCSI disk box (3 disks) with a Sparcstation 20 > >(Debian 3.0 Woody, kernel 2.4.18 SMP, 2 x SuperSparc II 75 MHz, no > >CDROM). Disk array: Sun P/N 595-3769-01, three 2G

Re: External SCSI disks with SS20

2005-10-04 Thread Klaus Klein
Hartwig Atrops wrote: Hi all. I try to run an external SCSI disk box (3 disks) with a Sparcstation 20 (Debian 3.0 Woody, kernel 2.4.18 SMP, 2 x SuperSparc II 75 MHz, no CDROM). Disk array: Sun P/N 595-3769-01, three 2GB disks (one slot is empty), narrow SCSI (50 pin). The SS20 starts boot

Re: External SCSI disks with SS20

2005-10-02 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi. On Sunday 02 October 2005 22:40, Michael-John Turner wrote: > AFAIK, 08:01 is sda1: > brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 1 Jul 5 2000 sda1 > > I have a feeling that the Linux kernel is identifying your ID 0 disk as > sda, which would be problematic as you want to boot from the ID 3 disk. > Perhaps t

Re: External SCSI disks with SS20

2005-10-02 Thread Michael-John Turner
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 07:03:52PM +0200, Hartwig Atrops wrote: > What is going wrong? Does my SS20 try to use an external disk as root > filesystem? Which device is 08:01? AFAIK, 08:01 is sda1: brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 1 Jul 5 2000 sda1 I have a feeling that the Linux kernel is identifying

External SCSI disks with SS20

2005-10-02 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi all. I try to run an external SCSI disk box (3 disks) with a Sparcstation 20 (Debian 3.0 Woody, kernel 2.4.18 SMP, 2 x SuperSparc II 75 MHz, no CDROM). Disk array: Sun P/N 595-3769-01, three 2GB disks (one slot is empty), narrow SCSI (50 pin). The SS20 starts booting, linux bootup recogniz