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Article #2260Re: 2 GB Fujitsu drives crashing on Sparc10
From: Andrew F. Wills
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:55
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:55
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In article <1993Jan27.134012.4739@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> wollborn@tnt.uni-hannover.de writes: >Hello netland, > >we got a big problem here concerning some of our 2 GB Fujitsu M2654 SA >drives connected to Sparc 10 workstations. For a while everything seemed >to be ok, but then strange things happened. Some files and directories >changed to devices or disappeared, and even a dump to our Exabyte >crashed. This happened to 4 of these drives; we have SunOS 4.1.3, and >at least one of the disks has been reformatted by ourselves, not only >by the vendor. > >So if anybody has had similar problems or could give us any hint, please >email me or post a followup. > >Thanks in advance, Michael > > ># ># Dipl.-Ing. Michael Wollborn (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) ># Institut fuer Theoretische Nachrichtentechnik und Informationsverarbeitung ># Universitaet Hannover, Appelstraรe 9A, D-3000 Hannover 1 ># ># phone +49-511-762-5312 / fax +49-511-762-5333 ># email wollborn@tnt.uni-hannover.de ># ># disclaimer: all opinions expressed above are strictly private ># > > We ran into the same type of problem with the Sparc10's using Artecon external SCSI bus equipment. It turns out that the Sparc10 series is using a different type of SCSI termination. You need to contact your local sales rep and get him/her to give you some terminators for the SS10 SCSI bus. I think they are called Forced Powered Terminators, or something like that. Andy Wills. awills@wam.umd.edu You get what you ask for if you believe me.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!wam.umd.edu!awills From: awills@wam.umd.edu (Andrew F. Wills) Subject: Re: 2 GB Fujitsu drives crashing on Sparc10 Message-ID: <1993Jan28.015510.12038@wam.umd.edu> Sender: usenet@wam.umd.edu (USENET News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: rac3.wam.umd.edu Organization: University of Maryland, College Park References: <1993Jan27.134012.4739@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:55:10 GMT Lines: 42