Drive not recognised by diag

[richard at cs.adelaide.edu.au]

In article <1990Sep12.175852.11494 at rice.edu>, evan at goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au writes:
|> We are attempting to install a new Micropolis 1588-15 SCSI drive with a
				      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hmm.. My commiserations to you. I've tried the trick & got no-where.

|> Sun 3/60 running SunOS 3.5 via an Emulex MD21 controller.  The controller
|> already has a SCSI disk and tape drive attached.
|> 
|> The new drive is set to be SCSI unit 1, the Emulex unaltered, however diag
|> cannot find the new drive, instead producing:
|> 
|> ncycl 1614 acyl 2 nhead 15 nsect 54 interleave 1
|> reset the SCSI bus...
|> Test unit ready failed, cyl=0, head=0, sector=0 scb: 2 check
|> sense bytes: 70 0 2 0 0 0 0 A 0 0 0 0 FF
|> sense class 7
|> 	sense key 2 Not Ready.
|> 	block no. 0
|> 
|> It still works fine for unit 0, and the drive is ok.
|> 

I got the same type of error when trying to put a Micro. 1588 drive on an
SS1, it also failed on that cylinder. I got a fax from a supplier here in
Aust. & it gave the physical disk information as:

	Cyls: 1632 (unformatted)
	      1628 (formatted)

	Heads:	15
	Sectors/Track:	54

No matter what values I gave 'format', it'd balk at the same
Cyl/head/sector counts (even if the sector # it gave in error is higher
that the # of sectors/track that I specified. ie: error message info.
from the disk via. SCSI)).

	Anyway, our solution:

		Trade in the Microp. drives & get Wren Vs!

However, all that withstanding, your error is different to ours, but it's
possible that this is how the problem is reported on a Sun3 as opposed to
an SS1.

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