Re: SUMMARY: help diag SCSI problems

From: Tatjana Heuser (pierrot@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de)
Date: Mon Jan 06 1992 - 13:28:08 CST


jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu (Darrell McCauley) writes:

[scsi resets with IPC]

>5. >From the Sun Field Engineer Handbook-- "SCSI bus errors may occur when
> multiple SCSI devices are used with CPU boards below 501-1689-06."
> Check the CPU board to see if this is true--if you do have a downrev
> board and you have a maintenance contract, a call to your local support
> engineer should be enough to get it replaced.
>
>I have not had a chance to check these yet (busy trying to graduate)
>and I'm waiting for the error to happen again (system load has been way
>down during the holidays).

According to Sun on IPC boards below the above mentioned
CPU-Revision (labelled on board directly above the S-Bus connectors)
the on-board routing of the SCSI Bus is somewhat long, causing
the bus not to be correctly terminated on the *Sun* side.
Hence -as the internal disk is not terminated - the bus isn't terminated at all!
Sun recommends terminating the internal disk if no other device is added.
(if only one disk is present, a bus open on one side is tolerated)
As this was not possible for me (The concerned machine was a tape server,
resulting in the Exabyte constantly resetting during backup),
Sun immediately exchanged the board.

/tatjana

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