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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: hinv does not see Exabyte drives
- Message-ID: <ohrhgkg@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 02:09:36 GMT
- References: <2849@contex.contex.com> <o7dquho@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <2860@contex.contex.com> <1992Aug13.222254.18841@unixg.ubc.ca>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <1992Aug13.222254.18841@unixg.ubc.ca> laplante@unixg.ubc.ca (Denis Laplante) writes:
- | We have 2 exabytes (bought 2 years apart from Digidyne) connected to
- | Personal Iris 4D/25, and had problems at every power-up reboot. Some
- | timeout message would be displayed.
- |
- | Someone from SGI (I don't have the name) suggested changing the nvram
- | variable bootmode from 'c' to 'C' . It works. I vaguely remember this
- | changes the nature of SCSI device tests.
- |
- | To change: 'nvram bootmode C', or in boot monitor 'setenv bootmode C'.
-
- Yep. That suppresses some of the power on SCSI tests. By default,
- we suppressed the same tests on Indigo and later ESD machines (you
- can turn them on with bootmode=d (diagmode=v for r4k Indigo) on those
- machines.
-
- The Exabyte drive does what I still think is the wrong thing
- when sent a command it recognizes, but doesn't support...
- The ones SGI sold (with 252T firmware, not the original that
- was qualified only on the ASD systems with 425? (can't remember
- the letter) had this fixed in the Exabyte firmware.
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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