I have a SPARCstation IPC that has recently received a new power supply thanks to the work of a kind soul.
The system boots and runs using its ancient and tiny spinning hard drive, a Maxtor LXT213SY.
The weird thing is, the system will not accept any other SCSI drive.
But for the life of me, I can't even venture a guess as to why the system insists on only this one drive. Could it be something wrong with the SCSI chip? (But then why is it happy when the SCSI ID is different, or when I reconnect the blessed drive via the external SCSI port?) Does the MAXTOR drive have some archaic feature that none of my other spinning disks or emulators have?
I'm truly at a loss, so any ideas much appreciated.
The system boots and runs using its ancient and tiny spinning hard drive, a Maxtor LXT213SY.
The weird thing is, the system will not accept any other SCSI drive.
- Without the drive attached, the system hangs on startup after the framebuffer wakes up but before completing any tests; Stop-A doesn't do anything
- Connecting any other drive, real or emulated, SCSI2SD or BlueSCSI or ZuluSCSI, has the same effect
- The system tolerates me changing the SCSI ID and attaching it via either the internal or external SCSI ports
- Adding a SCSI drive to the bus has no effect; the system boots but no other device is recognized
But for the life of me, I can't even venture a guess as to why the system insists on only this one drive. Could it be something wrong with the SCSI chip? (But then why is it happy when the SCSI ID is different, or when I reconnect the blessed drive via the external SCSI port?) Does the MAXTOR drive have some archaic feature that none of my other spinning disks or emulators have?
I'm truly at a loss, so any ideas much appreciated.