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- From: hogg@ucs.ubc.ca (John Hogg)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.hardware
- Subject: Startup problem: Seagate Elite 3 disks on R4K Indigo
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 21:21:28 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
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- We have encountered an awkward startup problem with some Seagate disks and
- were wondering if it is unique to us or whether other people have seen it.
-
- Here is the configuration:
-
- R4K Indigo (4.05F, of course) with 64MB of memory, a 1.2GB system
- disk on SCSI address 1 and 4 external Seagate Elite 3 disks (3GB each,
- fast SCSI, on addresses 3 to 6 inclusive). The external disks are in
- a 19" rack mount tray, and the cable length is well under 6 metres.
-
- The problem:
-
- If we power up the system and the Indigo at the same time, the power-up
- diagnostics wait for the disks to become ready. They do, the diagnostics
- complete without complaint, and then the system starts up. During startup,
- we get a complaint about one of the Elite 3's. On one occasion, the
- complaint was:
-
- dks0d6s7 Drive not ready, driver not ready, ASQ=0x2, Block # 0
-
- Subsequent reboots don't get the disk back. If, however, we power down the
- system and the disks, power up the disks, wait for the disks to be ready,
- and *then* power up the Indigo, the Indigo finds them all without
- complaint and all seems to be well.
-
- On the other hand, if we take the very same disk string and attach it to
- an R3K Indigo running 4.04B, it will wait for the disks after power up and
- find them all without difficulty.
-
- Is this a known problem? If so, is there a workaround?
- --
- John Hogg; hogg@ucs.ubc.ca; Computing Services, University of British Columbia
-