Thanks to all who replied and apologies for posting the summary late:
Question:
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> I have got a SPARC 10 with two SCSI Bus cards and one of them even has got a
> RJ45 network port. The system boots up but complains (only once) that le1 is
> not connected (le1: No carrier - transciever cable problem). Can I get rid
> of this message?
>
> Secondly, as there are two SBus(es), do I have do something special to use
> both?
>
Replies:
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Date: Fri, 26 May 95 12:16:37 PDT
From: jakem@apex.com (Jake Mahon)
I have a 4/75 with a similar configuration. I'm not using the
network port on the SCSI SBus card.
Under SunOS 4.x, the ethernet interfaces are configured at boot
via /etc/rc.local:
# set the netmask from NIS if running, or /etc/netmasks for all ether interfaces
ifconfig -a netmask + broadcast + > /dev/null
# all interfaces are completely configured now. print it out for posterity.
#
echo "network interface configuration:"
ifconfig -a
I considered fooling with options to ifconfig in rc.local to
make the single complaint go away, but figured it wasn't worth
the time. I reasoned that it was a quick check at boot to
assure the 2nd ethernet interface was still being seen... :)
I don't know enough about SunOS 5.x to point you towards a solution
if that's what you're running. It's nice when people cite the
version of the OS in their posts. I imagine Sol2 is using the
same underlying call to ifconfig in the startup scripts.
| Secondly, as there are two SBus(es), do I have do something special to use
| both?
You have to attach something to the SCSI bus to take advantage of
it. For example, to gain additional disk i/o on a database server,
I attach some of the disks to the first SCSI bus, and some to the
second. It's a load balancing issue.
Good luck, jakem@apex.com
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Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 20:30:53 GMT
From: rwh@atmos.albany.edu (Ronald W. Henderson)
Rana:
Check that you don't have a "/etc/hostname.le1" config file. You can
do a "ifconfig le1 down" command. Good Luck...
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Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 16:46:29 -0400
From: Boyd Fletcher <boyd@ccpo.odu.edu>
put the following in your rc.local
ifconfig le1 down
depends, what are the cards?
boyd
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From: sfeng@ced.berkeley.edu (Susan Feng)
Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 13:55:11 -0700 (PDT)
I think you can remove the file /etc/hostname.le1 to prevent ifconfig from
runnning on that interface, or change the rc.local file to run ifconfig
only on le0.
Susan
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Nope, just use them. Actually you have two scsi buses (plus the built-in one. There is only one SBUS (the connector that the scsi cards plug into.
If you're running Solaris 2.x then the disk addresses are something like c0t3d0s2, the c stands fo rcontroller number, in your case this will be 0 (thebuiltin one), 1 or 2. t is the scsi target address, disk is the logical unit number (always 0 on newer disks) and s is the slice or partition on the disk. Once you install the disks do a 'boot -r' so the kernel can configure the entries in /dev for them.
For SunOS 4.1.x if you look in the kernel configuration file you will see what the disk addresses are for the scsi buses, here's an example from 4.1.3:
# # The following section describes SCSI device unit assignments. # scsibus0 at esp # declare first scsi bus disk sd0 at scsibus0 target 3 lun 0 # first hard SCSI disk disk sd1 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0 # second hard SCSI disk disk sd2 at scsibus0 target 2 lun 0 # third hard SCSI disk disk sd3 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0 # fourth hard SCSI disk tape st0 at scsibus0 target 4 lun 0 # first SCSI tape tape st1 at scsibus0 target 5 lun 0 # second SCSI tape disk sr0 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0 # CD-ROM device scsibus1 at esp # declare second scsi bus disk sd4 at scsibus1 target 3 lun 0 # fifth hard SCSI disk disk sd5 at scsibus1 target 1 lun 0 # sixth hard SCSI disk disk sd6 at scsibus1 target 2 lun 0 # seventh hard SCSI disk disk sd7 at scsibus1 target 0 lun 0 # eighth hard SCSI disk tape st2 at scsibus1 target 4 lun 0 # third SCSI tape tape st3 at scsibus1 target 5 lun 0 # fourth SCSI tape disk sr1 at scsibus1 target 6 lun 0 # 2nd CD-ROM device scsibus2 at esp # declare third scsi bus disk sd8 at scsibus2 target 3 lun 0 # ninth hard SCSI disk disk sd9 at scsibus2 target 1 lun 0 # tenth hard SCSI disk disk sd10 at scsibus2 target 2 lun 0 # eleventh hard SCSI disk disk sd11 at scsibus2 target 0 lun 0 # twelfth hard SCSI disk
Thus the disks on the builtin scsi bus are sd0, sd1, sd2 and sd3. On the first controller they are sd4, sd5, sd6, sd7, and on the second controller they are sd8, sd9, sd10 and sd11. If you run format it should list all the disks for you.
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For the first problem, if you have a file named /etc/hostname.le1, remove it. As for the second problem, if you are running 4.1.3, you don't have to do anything. If you are running Solaris, you have to boot from prom with the -r option.
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Well you need to configure the port so that it's not active. This is done in the /etc/rc.local (Sun 4.1.X) file. Add a line
ifconfig le1 down # followed by: ifconfig -a
This should fix the problem. I imagine the solution is similar for Solaris 2.X.
You need to add support to the kernel so that it recognizes the extra drives. In one of the files (I can't remember which) you simply un-comment the line for a second SCSI bus, and extra drives. Again this is Sun 4.1.X.
Good Luck.
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I have always had this same problem too ! Let me know if you find a way to fix this. The le1 is a second ethernet port on your machine and could be hooked to a DIFFERENT network. Unfortunately from what Sun told me one has to use the le0 first which prohibits me from using my le1 which I thought is supposed to be a faster network connection.
Well for the Sbus(es), if you are using solaris 1.x, a kernel has to be compiled which will notice a second sbus, by default the Generic kernel should work. If you are in solaris 2.x, i'm not sure.
/***************************************************************** /***************************************************************** /***************************************************************** Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 08:46:01 -0700 From: swi@netcom.com (Super Workstation)
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In response to your questions: 1. The message is the system is trying to boot from the network instead of the ard disk drive, you need to change the boot prom. 2. To use both Sbus card you need to change the PIN on the motherboard, which stem are running the Sbus cards; SPARC1,20,5???
Rana, I will reply you once I receive all the information from you.
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ifconfig le1 down
There are probably some more cleaver ways to do it, but try putting this in the appropriate rc file.
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