SUMMARY: Trouble with external SCSI on SUN Blade 2000

From: Philippe Bourdeu d'Aguerre <bda_at_aime.insa-tlse.fr>
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 08:02:59 EDT
Many thanks to those who give advices:

Juergen Waiblinger
Dominic Clarke
Luc I. Suryo
Frangois Legal

I retain explanation from Juergen Waiblinger
> Hello,
>
> i have seen the same things (with external cdrom and dat) using the wrong
> cables. You need a hd68 to hd50 cable which has termination inside. They
> are a little bit more expensive but than it should work. Keeep in mind,
> that you have 8 wires not used. If you have the possibility to check the
> thing with a windows box you will see that the dat is working as the
> lowlevel scsi driver from MS won't recognize the problem (but runs in
> problems when you put data on the tape)
> If you nare using a correct cable i would assume the DAT to be faulty.
> btw. as far as i know in France you can get that from transtec
> (www.transtec.fr) it's called CB-WT2SCSI-1.

But I will not try this solution because I had success with another solution: 
I extracted the DAT from his box and installed it inside the SUN. Internals 
SCSI connectors was the same and it seems to work smoothly.

On Mardi 15 Avril 2003 15:42, Philippe Bourdeu d'Aguerre wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I try to install an external DAT on a SUN Blade 2000. It's a SEAGATE
> STD124000N, DAT DDS3 with SCSI 2 interface. I connect it through a
> HD68-HD50 cable but it doesn't work:
> - active terminator doesn't light on
> - on "boot -r" I get error messages:
> Apr 14 10:44:35 limoux scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
> /pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1 (glm1): Apr 14 10:44:35 limoux  Connected command
> timeout for Target 0.0
> Apr 14 10:44:35 limoux genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info] NOTICE: glm1: fault
> detected in device; service still available Apr 14 10:44:35 limoux genunix:
> [ID 611667 kern.info] NOTICE: glm1: Connected command timeout for Target
> 0.0 Apr 14 10:44:35 limoux glm: [ID 280919 kern.warning] WARNING:
> ID[SUNWpd.glm.cmd_timeout.6017] Apr 14 10:44:35 limoux scsi: [ID 107833
> kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@8,700000/scsi@6,1 (glm1): Apr 14 10:44:35
> limoux  timeout on bus reset interrupt
> Apr 14 10:44:35 limoux genunix: [ID 408789 kern.warning] WARNING: glm1:
> fault detected in device; service unavailable Apr 14 10:44:35 limoux
> genunix: [ID 451854 kern.warning] WARNING: glm1: timeout on bus reset
> interrupt
>
> - devices are not created
>
> Can somebody confirms that SunBlade 2000 supports SCSI 2 devices ? Is there
> any necessary conf ?
>
> Thanks.
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Philippe BOURDEU d'AGUERRE
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