This is a second summary. I received four more replies to my request
for help with SCSI drives on a Sun 4/280 after my previous summary.
We also finally got it working.
Further replies indicated:
1) It may be a problem with settings on the disk - particularly
that we had to disable synchronous SCSI and the read-ahead cache;
2) It is more than likely a cabling problem.
The true result was - a cabling problem. By simply using a new cable,
we got the disk running flawlessly.
Thanks to the following for their replies:
wwf@doe.carleton.ca (W. Walter Fergusson)
markw@utig.ig.utexas.edu (Mark Wiederspahn)
jakem@apex.com (Jake Mahon)
lee%polarsun@rna.rockefeller.edu (Lee Chen)
Thanks to the following for their previous replies:
kuhn@math.harvard.edu (Robert M. Kuhn)
barnes@sde.mdso.vf.ge.com (Barnes William)
jamest@sybase.com (James Terry)
Recap of problem:
>We are having problems attaching SCSI disk drives to a Sun 4/280 computer.
>The configuration is:
> Sun 4/280 running SunOS 4.1.2
> 2 Xylogics 450/451 SMD Controllers
> 4 Hitachi DK815-10 disks
> Sun's VMEbus SCSI adaptor (sorry I don't know the model/part number)
> Exabyte 8200 tape drive (which uses the same SCSI adaptor with no problems)
>
>We are trying to attach SCSI disk drives (such as Fujitsu M2266S-512 and
>Fujitsu M2654SA drives) to this system, but we get several SCSI errors.
>
>si0: si_arb_sel: scsi bus continuously busy
>si0: resetting scsi bus
Ian.
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Ian MacPhedran, Engineering Computer Centre, University of Saskatchewan.
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