SUMMARY: Selected SCSI Device Not Responding, But Disk OK

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Last week, I wrote:
>
>An SLC running Solaris 2.5 recently had its NVRAM replaced. Now
>it refuses to boot from its one and only disk, with the PROM
>monitor reporting the "Selected SCSI Device not responding."
>
>Probe-scsi sees the disk, at the correct SCSI target Id. In
>addition, booting the system from an install server in single-
>user and running format finds the disk, also at the right id.
>Also, the disk's root partition can be mounted and looked at,
>again using the correct SCSI target id. Everything looks normal.
>I re-ran installboot, but this didn't change anything.
>

Thanks to:

Tilman.Sporkert@Eng.Sun.COM (Tilman Sporkert)
Peter Barneveld <Peter@metten.FenK.WAU.NL>
Pell Emanuelsson <pell@lysator.liu.se>
Wolfgang Bauer <bauerw@transtec.de>
gml4410@ggr.co.uk
ue Ghaemi <ghaemis@infonet1.infonet.com>
Bruce Skidmore <skidmorb@ochampus.mil>
issysad@aphid.fhcrc.org (System Administration)
bismark@alta.jpl.nasa.gov (Bismark Espinoza)

The NVRAM was set to boot from "sd(0,0,0)". Telling it to boot
from "sd(0,3,0)" resolved the problem. The disk in question was
one of the old ESDI/SCSI Sun shoeboxes.

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