I had a few replies suggesting that I check the termination and firmware. The termination was correct and I could not find any firmware updates from Sun or Seagate. I posted a support request to Seagate and got : > Unless you have firmware that was designed for the Sparc system this > drive is having a compatibility problem with the system and no fix is > available. > The only jumpers that you would need would be the termination and to set > the term power from the bus. Looks like I'll be buying some more disks then ;) Thanks to Angel Rivera, Don Harris and Al Hopper. Original posting is below. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Hi Managers, I been puzzling over this for a while. I purchased a load of Non-Sun 9GB external harddisks for all my SS20's to replace the old internal disks. The drives I got are Seagate ST39216W. When I run probe-scsi-all from the OBP I get something like this : Target 0 Unit 0 Disk Seagate ST39216W ..... Unit 1 Disk Seagate ST39216W ..... Unit 2 Disk Seagate ST39216W ..... Unit 3 Disk Seagate ST39216W ..... Unit 4 Disk Seagate ST39216W ..... Unit 5 Disk Seagate ST39216W ..... Unit 6 Disk Seagate ST39216W ..... Unit 7 Disk Seagate ST39216W ..... I played around with the jumpers for a while but couldn't get it to report correctly. I installed all the SS20's on these disks and everything was fine but then I started to have an abnormal amount of failures (SCSI Transport errors etc...). I've tried to connect the drive to a different controller but the problem persists. I run a full analyize and it doesn't find anything wrong. The drives are terminated onboard and they are the only device in the chain. Has anyone seen this before ? Is this just a jumper issues or are these drives not suited for this purpose ? I would be grateful for any suggestions. Many thanks, Adam.Received on Thu May 31 09:02:04 2001
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