Good afternoon,

I have a number of U160 and U320 drives of varying sizes 18g-74g. In my
Netra's they all have 18g drives and my Ultra 1 has the 2.1g drives it
shipped with. I would like to use larger drives as 2.1g drives really limit
the usefulness of the Ultra1 (and 18g on the Netra for that matter) but when
I tried installing a 74g Ultra320 SCA-2 drive on the netra it was generating
"Magic Number Errors" as well as I/O errors. As best as I can tell the SCSI
bus on the Ultra 1 and Netra are both SCSI2. What is the newest type of
drive I can use in these? i was under the impression from reading that SCSI
was 100% backwards compatible with the only exception being differential
SCSI (which i believe the ultra 1 may have so what kind of newish drive and
i looking for there or what adapter am I looking for). I have openboot
3.10.24 i believe on the Netra UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine. The Ultra 1 is in the
mail so i have not yet tested it yet. I attempted the install with 2.9Sparc
12/02 but I also received 8/03 in the mail recently. Any suggestions would
be greatly appreciated.

Jesse Geddis

Griff Miller II <griff.miller@positron.com> wrote:
> Jesse Geddis wrote:
> > Good afternoon,
> >
> > I have a number of U160 and U320 drives of varying sizes 18g-74g. In my
> > Netra's they all have 18g drives and my Ultra 1 has the 2.1g drives it
> > shipped with. I would like to use larger drives as 2.1g drives really limit
> > the usefulness of the Ultra1 (and 18g on the Netra for that matter) but when
> > I tried installing a 74g Ultra320 SCA-2 drive on the netra it was generating
> > "Magic Number Errors" as well as I/O errors.

> To fix the "magic" messages, you use the "format" command, subcommand "label" .

> Don't know about the I/O errors, though.

> Are your big drives single-ended, or at most LVD? HVD isn't going to work on
> a SE or LVD controller.


I have 3 Ultra 160 drives in an Ultra 2. All drives are running
in Single-Ended mode. There should be a jumper on the drive labeled "SE/LVD"
to something to that effect. Run the drive in SE mode and it should work.


Jim


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In article <UKF5b.353752$uu5.69721@sccrnsc04>, balson@attbi.com (Jim Balson)
writes...
> Griff Miller II <griff.miller@positron.com> wrote:
> > Jesse Geddis wrote:
> > > Good afternoon,
> > >
> > > I have a number of U160 and U320 drives of varying sizes 18g-74g. In my
> > > Netra's they all have 18g drives and my Ultra 1 has the 2.1g drives it
> > > shipped with. I would like to use larger drives as 2.1g drives really limit
> > > the usefulness of the Ultra1 (and 18g on the Netra for that matter) but when
> > > I tried installing a 74g Ultra320 SCA-2 drive on the netra it was generating
> > > "Magic Number Errors" as well as I/O errors.
>
> > To fix the "magic" messages, you use the "format" command, subcommand "label" .
>
> > Don't know about the I/O errors, though.
>
> > Are your big drives single-ended, or at most LVD? HVD isn't going to work on
> > a SE or LVD controller.
>
>
> I have 3 Ultra 160 drives in an Ultra 2. All drives are running
> in Single-Ended mode. There should be a jumper on the drive labeled "SE/LVD"
> to something to that effect. Run the drive in SE mode and it should work.


Where do you put the 3rd drive -- in place of the CDROM or floppy?

(I recently picked up a used Ultra-2 and thought it only had 2 HD bays
that used SCA drives)



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Philip J. Koenig <See_email_@ddress_below.this_one_is.invalid> wrote:
> In article <UKF5b.353752$uu5.69721@sccrnsc04>, balson@attbi.com (Jim Balson)
> writes...
> > Griff Miller II <griff.miller@positron.com> wrote:
> > > Jesse Geddis wrote:
> > > > Good afternoon,
> > > >
> > > > I have a number of U160 and U320 drives of varying sizes 18g-74g. In my
> > > > Netra's they all have 18g drives and my Ultra 1 has the 2.1g drives it
> > > > shipped with. I would like to use larger drives as 2.1g drives really limit
> > > > the usefulness of the Ultra1 (and 18g on the Netra for that matter) but when
> > > > I tried installing a 74g Ultra320 SCA-2 drive on the netra it was generating
> > > > "Magic Number Errors" as well as I/O errors.
> >
> > > To fix the "magic" messages, you use the "format" command, subcommand "label" .
> >
> > > Don't know about the I/O errors, though.
> >
> > > Are your big drives single-ended, or at most LVD? HVD isn't going to work on
> > > a SE or LVD controller.
> >
> >
> > I have 3 Ultra 160 drives in an Ultra 2. All drives are running
> > in Single-Ended mode. There should be a jumper on the drive labeled "SE/LVD"
> > to something to that effect. Run the drive in SE mode and it should work.


> Where do you put the 3rd drive -- in place of the CDROM or floppy?

> (I recently picked up a used Ultra-2 and thought it only had 2 HD bays
> that used SCA drives)


Yes an Ulrta 2 does only have 2 slots for disks, but all of my
Ultra 160 drives are external. I have 2 4.3g drives internally.



Jim



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In article <62_5b.363112$o%2.163353@sccrnsc02>, balson@attbi.com (Jim Balson)
writes...
> Philip J. Koenig <See_email_@ddress_below.this_one_is.invalid> wrote:
> > In article <UKF5b.353752$uu5.69721@sccrnsc04>, balson@attbi.com (Jim Balson)
> > writes...
> > > Griff Miller II <griff.miller@positron.com> wrote:
> > > > Jesse Geddis wrote:
> > > > > Good afternoon,
> > > > >
> > > > > I have a number of U160 and U320 drives of varying sizes 18g-74g. In my
> > > > > Netra's they all have 18g drives and my Ultra 1 has the 2.1g drives it
> > > > > shipped with. I would like to use larger drives as 2.1g drives really limit
> > > > > the usefulness of the Ultra1 (and 18g on the Netra for that matter) but when
> > > > > I tried installing a 74g Ultra320 SCA-2 drive on the netra it was generating
> > > > > "Magic Number Errors" as well as I/O errors.
> > >
> > > > To fix the "magic" messages, you use the "format" command, subcommand "label" .
> > >
> > > > Don't know about the I/O errors, though.
> > >
> > > > Are your big drives single-ended, or at most LVD? HVD isn't going to work on
> > > > a SE or LVD controller.
> > >
> > >
> > > I have 3 Ultra 160 drives in an Ultra 2. All drives are running
> > > in Single-Ended mode. There should be a jumper on the drive labeled "SE/LVD"
> > > to something to that effect. Run the drive in SE mode and it should work.
>
>
> > Where do you put the 3rd drive -- in place of the CDROM or floppy?
>
> > (I recently picked up a used Ultra-2 and thought it only had 2 HD bays
> > that used SCA drives)
>
>
> Yes an Ulrta 2 does only have 2 slots for disks, but all of my
> Ultra 160 drives are external. I have 2 4.3g drives internally.


Ah, OK thanks.


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