SUMMARY: problem to boot

From: Elena Gianolio (gianolio@ptsun00.cern.ch)
Date: Fri Mar 08 1996 - 06:32:35 CST


Hello,

Sorry for the delay with this summary. Just been busy lately

Original question:

> Hello,
>
> on an old SparcStation SLC
>
> if I do:
>
> ok probe-scsi
> Target 3
> Unit 0 Disk CDC 94191-15 0815
> Unit 1 Disk CDC 94191-15 0815
> Unit 2 Disk CDC 94191-15 0815
> Unit 3 Disk CDC 94191-15 0815 <<----- Strange isn't it?
> Unit 4 Disk CDC 94191-15 0815
> Unit 5 Disk CDC 94191-15 0815
> Unit 6 Disk CDC 94191-15 0815
> Unit 7 Disk CDC 94191-15 0815
>
> And if I try to boot it:
> ok boot
>
> after a while it starts to reboot
> and it enter into a not-ending loop ....
>
>
> Any ideas or suggestion?

Thanks to:

Rahul Roy <roy@bluestone.com>
Jose Manuel Franco Melgar <jmfranco@campus.cem.itesm.mx>
carlo@hub.eng.wayne.edu (Carlo Musante)
ken_simpson@tmai.com (Kenneth Simpson)
Lothar Mueller <mueller@darmstadt.gmd.de>
"MR.OMAR" <rosley@tsi.com.my>
frode@read-well.no (Frode Stromsvag)
ukcphmr@ukpmr.cs.philips.nl (Mike R. Phillips 3788)
idugo@italy.sun.com (Ugo Balordi)
Adam Nevins <adam@ltx.com>
joe@pdcma.pdc.com
parks@xdiv.LANL.GOV (Parks Fields)
Wis Macomson <wis@sequent.com>
Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>
paulw@vsl.com.au (Paul Waclawik)
Mike <mike@compnews.co.uk>
"Philip L. Sweany" <psweany@s054.aone.net.au>
gaijin@doemail.sbi.com (John Little)

The solution:

For the moment was enought to
Power on and reser the machine with the command "reset" at the prompt ok >

It is general opinion (and I belive it is the real cause) that the pins with
who the scsi number is selected are damaged.

Thanks a lot

elena gianolio
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