Re: Stable and Sun A1000's
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 03:52:42PM +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote:
> I've got a trying problem with Debian/SPARC. Our latest Debian SPARC
> machine is a 220R with an A1000 in tow. The snag we've hit is that the
> A1000 is not being picked up by Debian. Further prom investigation with
> probe-scsi-all failed to show up the disks in the A1000. The
> "maintenance" light is also hard on.
>
> - Yes it's terminated
> - changed cables
> - used a second A1000
> - there are no ID confilcts
>
> From my Google-ing I've found the A1000 does work with Debian but I
> clearly appear to be missing something.
Yes, the A1000/D1000 does work under sparc-linux. In fact, Debian's
primary archive server is an UltraSPARC with an A1000 array. We've run
it under 2.2.19 and are currently using 2.4.x.
If "probe-scsi-all" doesn't show it, then you have another problem, that
has nothing to do with Linux. My best guess is that you have it
connected to the standard UltraSCSI that comes in the UltraSPARC. This
doesn't work, as the A1000 needs differential SCSI, and no UltraSPARC's
come with this (I know, I that it was silly too for them to sell an
array that none of their machines support with stock hardware).
You'll need to get a differential capable SCSI card. Sun's website shows
some third-party vendors.
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