Subject: Re: bootable cd no good for 3000/400
To: Ray Phillips <r.phillips@jkmrc.uq.edu.au>
From: David Woyciesjes <dwoyciesjes@comcast.net>
List: port-alpha
Date: 05/27/2003 09:02:45
Ray Phillips wrote:
>
>
> A drive issue, yes that's the logical conclusion and the one I came
> to on reflection after sending my query to the list. However...
>
> The problem boot cd I'd been using was a CD-R/W (which I omitted to
> mention was created from 1.6T cvs sources) so it won't work in the
> 3000/400's internal rrd42. However, I thought I'd try booting from a
> CD-R containing NetBSD 1.5.3 in the Plextor drive. That worked, but
> when I tried it in the rrd42 it failed with the same
>
> ? T_ERR_SCSI - CHECK_MEDIA/DEVICE
>
> error. I tried it again in the Plextor and it failed there too.
> Next I power-cycled everything, tried the Plextor drive again which
> worked, and the rrd42 which failed. So, something strange is
> happening. Luckily the 3000/400 will netboot happily.
>
> Ray
I assume you double check the SCSI termination settings on all the
drives?
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