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- From: brian@garbo.contex.com (Brian Love)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: hinv does not see Exabyte drives
- Message-ID: <2872@contex.contex.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 16:43:46 GMT
- References: <2860@contex.contex.com> <1992Aug13.222254.18841@unixg.ubc.ca> <ohrhgkg@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Xyvision Design Systems
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- In article <ohrhgkg@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >In <1992Aug13.222254.18841@unixg.ubc.ca> laplante@unixg.ubc.ca (Denis Laplante) writes:
- >| 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.
-
- Here's some more data I compiled. All of these machines had the prom monitor
- variable bootmode set to 'C'. Speedy is a Crimson Elan with the same version
- internal exabyte as DWS13 (Exabyte prom revision 425A).
-
- prom SCSI unix
- trial mach reset hinv auto errors hinv
- ------------------------------------------------------
- 1 DWS13 cold yes yes yes(1) no
- 2 DWS13 cold no - yes(1) no
-
- 3 speedy cold yes yes yes(2) no
- 4 speedy cold no - no yes
- 5 speedy cold no - yes(2) no
-
- 6 porky cold yes yes yes(1) no
- 7 porky cold no - yes(1) no
- 8 porky cool(3) no - no yes
-
- (1) sc0,6,0: cmd=0x12 timeout after 1 sec. Resetting SCSI bus
- sc0,7,0: cmd=0x12 timeout after 1 sec. Resetting SCSI bus
- (2) sc0,6,0: cmd=0x12 timeout after 1 sec. Resetting SCSI bus
- (3) 'cool' means the external exabyte was left on while the CPU was
- power-cycled.
-
-
- Obviously 'setenv bootmode C' hasn't helped my problem. None of the
- Exabyte drives I have at my disposal came from SGI. Can anyone provide
- me with SGI's recommended switch/jumper settings for the Exabyte drive?
-
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