This is a big DOH! on my part. SCSI bus was unterminated with a 3'
cable hanging out the back plugged into nothing. Remove the cable and
the errors go away.
Apologies for the noise.
EZ
On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 03:15 PM, Kit Halsted wrote:
Howdy, Eric:
Disclaimer: My only Sparc experience is with a SPARCstation 4, so I'm
not clued in as far as model-specific anomalies like I am with Macs.
At 12:35 PM -0800 2/27/02, Eric Zylstra wrote:
I've just installed 2.8 on a SPARCStation LX. While booting, it has
poured out a bunch of SCSI parity errors. I can't get a dmesg out now
since is is busy generating the DSA host key. One possibly relevant
bit of information is that I had to replace the NVRAM chip which I
programmed with some data (aside from the machine type field) that was
bogus. I don't expect that would have caused the parity issues.
AFAIK, that's got much to do with networking & nothing to do with disk.
(My SGI INDY has been powered down for >6 months now, I'm guessing I'll
have to venture into NVRAM-reprogramming-land next time I try to boot
it.)
It seems two errors are issued.
#1
sd0 (esp0:3:0): Check Condition on opcode 8
SENSE KEY: Aborted Command
INFO FIELD: <some number>
ASC/ASCQ: SCSI Parity Error
FRU CODE: 0x5
#2
sd0 (esp0:3:0): Check Condition on opcode a
SENSE KEY: Aborted Command
INFO FIELD: <some number>
ASC/ASCQ: SCSI Parity Error
FRU CODE: 0x5
The errors haven't seemed to interfere with booting.
Could this be corrected by reformatting the hard drive?
Anything's possible, but I doubt it.
Does this just mean the drive is probably getting a bit tired and
might need to pass on to eternal rest?
Probably, but...
It's possible, but not likely, that there's a jumper on the "Disable
Parity" pins (or no jumper on "Enable Parity") on the drive. Googling
for the drive manufacturer + drive model number + the word "jumper"
will probably give you all the jumper info you need.
That being said, the drive is most likely toast. Here's what the Sun
manual has to say about it:
<http://docs.sun.com:80/ab2/coll.208.1/SMCLASSIC/@Ab2PageView/idmatch
(Z40009C59CA)?Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1#Z40009C59CA>
& here's the URL for the whole manual:
<http://docs.sun.com/ab2/coll.208.1/SMCLASSIC/>
Thanks for any input,
HTH,
-Kit
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