SUMMARY: SPARCstation 5 - Sol 8 on ST39150N

Thanks to Steve, Will and Peter.  You know who you are.

My disk was U/S.  Simple.

Thanks,

--Rob.

ST39150N


> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to put Solaris 8 onto an aging SPARCstation 5 with a 9GB
Seagate
> disk, in order to build an install server dedicated to the X1 revolution,
> ahem.
>
> After s.l.o.w.l.y. booting from CD and starting the Solaris 8 Webstart
> installer 3.0, the install kernel boots and searches for disks, during
which
> time the ST39140N goes "offline".  Error given below:
>
> WARNING:
> /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma5@0,840000/esp@5,8800000/sd@1,0
>
> probe-scsi sees the disk fine (target 1 at the mo').
>
> Am I missing a jumper on the disk to stop it spinning down?  If not, what
> have I missed?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Rob.
>
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