Adding more disks to Indigo

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2 total messages Started by Michael Zeitlin Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:12

#40

Author: Michael Zeitlin
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:12

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    We have an Indigo R4000-Elan with a floppy and two disk drives mounted 
    in the slots....    When i tried adding two more drives (older units
    from my old 4D/35) to the external SCSI....one of the drives failed
    to mount (no label...so fx said...).

    if i pull out one of the internal drives ...i can then mount the outside
    drives fine....

    Is there a limit to how many drives i can have on my indigo?  

    mjz

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Re: Adding more disks to Indigo

#41

Author: Dave Olson
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 05:35

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In <1992Dec29.181208.26251@texhrc.uucp> mjz@mjzsgi.Texaco.COM (Michael Zeitlin) writes:
|     We have an Indigo R4000-Elan with a floppy and two disk drives mounted 
|     in the slots....    When i tried adding two more drives (older units
|     from my old 4D/35) to the external SCSI....one of the drives failed
|     to mount (no label...so fx said...).
| 
|     if i pull out one of the internal drives ...i can then mount the outside
|     drives fine....
| 
|     Is there a limit to how many drives i can have on my indigo?  

Yes, 7 ;)  (only 7 non-host SCSI ID's, for those who don't know
SCSI).

Check that you have the last device terminated, and no others,
also check that aren't trying to use the same ID as one of
the internal devices (hinv output helps).

Make sure you have good external cables, not the parallel port
printer cables that happen to look similar (and aren't!).
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com

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