I apologize for the late summary. Things have been hectic lately, and I'm
not sure which answer(s) I received actually answered my question.
The problem with the framebuffer was the easiest to explain, and several
people were kind enough to do so. It turns out that the driver software
comes on a separate CD which wasn't supplied by the rental company. Quoting
Ron Olphie, "The graphic device drivers must be loaded from a cd that comes
with the controller. The CD should be labeled 'RAPTOR GFX Open Windows for
Solaris'. After loading the cd:
cd /cdrom/cdrom0; ./install_all." Bill Hathaway said that I could get the
drivers from www.techsource.com, but I wasn't able to find them in the few
minutes I spent looking.
I got several different answers about the disk error, and I don't know how
many of them are correct. The system is running, the users ain't
complaining, and I won't have time to investigate further until next week.
Again from Ron, "The scsi bus 'problem' is......you have one or more slower
devices on a bus that is meant to go faster. The entire bus speed must be
reduced in an attempt to accomadate these devices." I don't think this is
the underlying problem, but I can't say it isn't. The disk that the system
is complaining about is the CDROM, as Ray Buckley pointed out. Kevin Sheehan
also suggested checking the cable lengths, connections, terminations, etc.
Since the system has just been physically moved, that's not a bad idea.
Thanks to all who replied,
Rodney
----- Original Message -----
> My company just rented a system for Y2K testing:
>
> # uname -an
> SunOS y2kweb 5.6 Generic_105181-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250
>
> The system had been at another location before we got it, and the previous
> renters had used an ASCII terminal on it. When it was brought here, it
came
> with a graphics head. When the system booted, there were several error
> messages:
>
> Nov 29 18:49:38 y2kweb unix: glm1: Cmd (0x60211ef0) dump for Target 6
> Lun 0
> :
> Nov 29 18:49:38 y2kweb unix: glm1: cdb=[ 0x12 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x30
> 0x0
> ]
> Nov 29 18:49:38 y2kweb unix: glm1: pkt_flags=0x808 pkt_statistics=0x61
> pkt_
> state=0x7
> Nov 29 18:49:38 y2kweb unix: glm1: pkt_scbp=0x0 cmd_flags=0x28e0
> Nov 29 18:49:38 y2kweb unix: WARNING: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1 (glm1):
> Nov 29 18:49:38 y2kweb unix: Connected command timeout for Target 6.0
> Nov 29 18:49:38 y2kweb unix: WARNING: ID[SUNWpd.glm.cmd_timeout.6017]
> Nov 29 18:49:38 y2kweb unix: WARNING: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1 (glm1):
> Nov 29 18:49:38 y2kweb unix: Target 6 reducing sync. transfer rate
> Nov 29 18:49:38 y2kweb unix: WARNING: ID[SUNWpd.glm.sync_wide_backoff.6014]
> Nov 29 18:49:38 y2kweb unix: sd21 at pci1000,f1: target 6 lun 0
> Nov 29 18:49:38 y2kweb unix: sd21 is /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1/sd@6,0
> Nov 29 18:49:38 y2kweb unix: <SEAGATE-ST19171W-0024 cyl 5266 alt 2 hd 20
> sec
> ...
> Nov 29 18:49:38 y2kweb unix: keyboard is </pci@1f,4000/ebus@1/su@14,3083f8>
> majo
> r <37> minor <0>
> Nov 29 18:49:38 y2kweb unix: mouse is </pci@1f,4000/ebus@1/su@14,3062f8>
> major <
> 37> minor <1>
> Nov 29 18:49:38 y2kweb unix: stdin is </pci@1f,4000/ebus@1/su@14,3083f8>
> major <
> 37> minor <0>
> Nov 29 18:49:38 y2kweb unix: stdout is </pci@1f,2000/TSI,gfxp@1> major <-1>
> mino
> r <-1>
> Nov 29 18:49:38 y2kweb unix: NOTICE: Can't find driver for console
> framebuffer
>
> I think that the first set of messages mean that I've got a problem with a
> Seagate disk drive. If anyone can tell me anything more specific, I'd be
> grateful.
>
> The problem with the framebuffer is one I really don't understand.
According
> to the rental company, they had previously used a graphics head on it, then
> shipped it to a customer who used an ASCII terminal, then they provided the
> graphics head again when they brought the system to us.
>
> My assumption was that the previous customer had rebuilt the OS without
> graphics support. So, I reinstalled Solaris 2.6 from scratch (and selected
> "install everything"). I then applied the latest recommended patch bundle,
> rebooted, and got the same errors. The graphics head works fine as a giant
> ASCII terminal, but it don't do windows. Any help would be appreciated.
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