Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!hsdndev!cmcl2!esquire!ibarra From: ibarra@DPW.COM (Michael Ibarra) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Adding another hard-drive to a 3B2 Message-ID: <3225@esquire.dpw.com> Date: 3 May 91 16:50:33 GMT Organization: DP&W, New York, NY Lines: 125 I have attempted with no luck to answer someones (Steve Gaardner) mail for help on adding another hard drive to a 3B2/310. Here is what I did to add another drive to my 3B2/300. I hope this helps you... ** Most of these notes are from conversations with Orlan Cannon vmp!oc ** Cable description for below instructions. You should have a Y-cable to split the power supply cable now going into your existing hard drive to accomodate *two* hard drives, I believed I used a female to two males cable. You need a 20-socket to 20-edge ribbon cable for the additional drive. You need a 37-socket to 37-edge to 37-edge ribbon cable. This looks something like this: 37-edge: to drive 37-socket: to motherboard unit#0 37-edge: to drive unit#1 |_|______________________|_|_________________________|_| You will see the difference between the edge connector end and the pin connector end. I made my cable 2 1/2 feet from the pin connector to the first edge connector then another 2 1/2 feet to the end of this ribbon cable to the other edge connector. I made my 20-pin to 20-edge ribbon cable approximately 3 feet. I made the cables this long because I located the second drive outside of the cabinet of the 3B2 (temporarily, I plan to put it all inside of a tower case real soon). ADDING A SECOND HARD DRIVE ON THE 3B2 1- Back up the entire existing hard drive. 2- Powerdown the machine, unplug and with an antistatic wristband, remove the existing hard drive and replace it with what will be the second hard drive to this system. 3- Power on the machine and since this drive has no operating system yet, you should go into fimware mode. At this point you should have a floppy with idtools or equivalent. Using the 'formhard' command in idtools, format the hard drive with a verify (I did this two times just to be sure). 4- Now you have to powerdown the system again and using the same antistatic precautions above, remove the hard drive from this system. The cabling part now comes into play. The power cord that was going into your hard drive now has to be plugged in to the Y-cable(power) above. This cable then gets each of its two ends plugged in to one of each drive for this system (its OK, the power supply can handle the extra load!). There is a narrow cable comming off of the motherboard onto where the original drive was, on the motherboard where this comes off of is another connector that is empty. Here place the 20-pin cable specified above (this cable is the control cable). Next, replace the wide 37-pin cable with the one one described above. Run these two cables beneath the motherboard and away from the power cables for either of the two drives or the power cable for the motherboard. By the way, I placed a piece of cardboard beneath the motherboard to prevent contact with the control (20-pin) cables and the data (37-pin) cable. You should now have two 20-pin cables, one for each tape drive and one 37-pin cable for the data of *both* of the tape drives. 4- Now, depending upon how you are going to set up your system (which drive becomes unit 0 and which unit 1). If the original drive is to become the first drive on this chain then make sure the address with the jumpers on the drive itself are set to unit 0. The second drive of this chain will become unit 1, make sure that this one is addressed as unit 1 with the jumpers on the drive itself. remove the terminating resistor on the drive that is unit 0. Make sure that you have one on the drive that is to become unit 1 on the chain. 5- Connect all of the drives according to their proper places on the chain. The existing 20-pin cable goes to the 20-pin edge connector on the unit 0 drive, and the one 20-pin connector that was added to the motherboard goes to the 20-pin edge connector on the *additional* second hard drive. What should be remaining is the use of the 37-pin cable. Connect the 37-pin edge connnector that is in the middle of this ribbon cable to the drive that is unit 0. Connect the other end to the additional hard drive that is addressed as unit 1 on the chain. Again make sure that *ALL* of the cables are secure and pin one on the connector goes to pin one on the drive for *ALL* of the cables that's 20-pin and 37-pin. STEP SIX ONLY IF YOU ARE USING THE DRIVE THAT WAS THE EXISTING ORIGINAL AS UNIT 1. (when done or if not necessary skip to step 7) 6- Power up your machine and using idtools do a disk to disk (DD) copy of the drive unit1 (id2, internal drive #2) to its destination, drive unit0 (id1, internal drive #1). When this is done, check to be sure that it worked by attempting to boot a job off of this drive, you should get a message stating these are the only files found on this drive. Now format the second drive on this chain and verify it too using formhard. (you may have to add the bad block data by hand, if so then format it again maybe twice with a verify after you have entered this information to the drives bad block list. 7- Run filledt from the idtools diskette. When you are done you should go back into firmware mode and after typing in unix as the program you wish to execute, you should see ALL of the drives on the system as valid choices (FD5, HDXX & HDXX). Type in the first hard drive, which by now should have the contents of the original hard drive on it. Upon reboot, you are going to receive a message saying BAD SANITY WORD IN VTOC DRIVE #2. This is OK since you have not yet mounted this drive on the system. Using the sysadm partitioning portion of sysadm, you should then partition and mount the second hard drive. Now you should have a VTOC (volume table of contents) on the second drive unit #1. "Powerdown" the machine and power back on again, you should now reboot automatically from the first hard drive and receive no error messages regarding the VTOC from the second drive. GOOD LUCK! If you experience trouble during the disk to disk copy, then since you already backed up your original drive with all of your precious data, just do a operating system core set reload, then using the sysadm or whatever backup utility you like do a reload from your disks. Mike Ibarra ibarra@esquire.com