THE PROBLEM: I've been trying to add 3 external Seagate HAWK 2XL
ST32155N drives to my AXP 3000/600, which already has an external DAT
drive attached. However, when I do a SHOW DEV, I get a listing of *6*
ST32155N drives, not 3. It's possible for me to disklabel and newfs the
drives, and use all three during a session, but on reboot all but the
first comes up with "Dirty File System". The tape drive is last in the
bus.
THE SOLUTION: According to Alan Rollow, "Unit numbering is the problem.
You have at least two of the devices on the bus set to the same target
id."
He was correct. I had been trusting the SCSI ID switches on the disk
case. The switches (or the wires to the address pins on the drives) were
faulty, because when I set the IDs using jumpers on the drive,
everything was beautiful.
Thanks, Alan!
Thanks also to Jon Wright and Andy, who responded to my request for help
within MINUTES!
Received on Sat Aug 08 1998 - 20:21:36 NZST