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From: kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: SCSI Problems.
Summary: Thanks for the help.
Message-ID: <76XF02cI05X001@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 16:02:53 GMT
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Reply-To: kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shephard)
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I would like to thank everyone for the response to my SCSI problem.
I got the cube to see the drive and yes it was a problem with termination.
You see I didn't have any (I'm used to IBM-PC st506 interface and
termination it less critical than SCSI).

Thanks, again.

Now for the second problem.
-When booting up I get:

Waiting for drive to come ready
.......................
Unable to read disk label
SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label)

-Then I get the messages:

sd0(1,0) : sense key : 0x2 additional sense code : 0x4

-Also when I run builddisk I get:

unknown disk name
builddisk initialization failed
build of /dev/sd0 aborted

I assume that the errors about the label occur because the drive has not
been formatted for the NeXT.

I know to build the disk I have to have a disktab entry for it.  I assume
scsimodes will work on this disk and that after I run it I'll be able to
create a disktab entry in the file.

I would have run scsimodes yesterday when I fixed the termination problem
but I couldn't find it.  I did find the command to write a file system (wtfs)
and I played around a little with the disk command but without scsimodes
there wasn't much I could do.  I have the formatter ver 1.2 but can't get
it to my cube, I'm having problems with my serial connection to my PC via
null modem using a program called Communicae.

If I'm on the right track let me know and I'll let everyone know if I get
the drive up and running this weekend after I use scsimodes, sdform,
and builddisk.

                               Kent
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