Ultra 30 installation issues

[Bob Plymale]

You have either a bad disk, bad cable or bad controller.

Did you have Solari up and running on this successfully?

Go to obp and run some probe's and make sure you are not getting any 
timeouts.


On Jul 14, 2004, at 11:50 AM, Jeremy Karteczka wrote:

> I am having issues getting a non-Solaris OS to install on it.  I was 
> wondering if someone has some advice or possible causes, as the 
> internet is not being kind to me on this one.
>
> First, when booting Solaris I get these messages about the sync 
> transfer rate being reduced:
>
> WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3 (glm0):
>         SCSI bus DATA IN phase parity error
> WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3 (glm0):
>         Target 0 reducing sync. transfer rate
> WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3 (glm0):
>         SCSI bus DATA IN phase parity error
> WARNING: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 3 (glm0):
>         Target 1 reducing sync. transfer rate
>
> Not a big deal as far as I can tell.  The system stays up and seems to 
> be stable.
>
> I am sure both of the drives in the system are from this generation of 
> the Sun family, and the same thing happens no matter which drive I 
> leave in (or if I try different ones).
>
> I did reset the NVRAM to defaults to rule out any funky settings from 
> the previous owner:
>
> Sun Ultra 30 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-II 296MHz), No Keyboard
> OpenBoot 3.27, 128 MB memory installed, Serial #9645376.
> Ethernet address 8:0:20:93:2d:40, Host ID: 80932d40.
>
> ok set-defaults
> Setting NVRAM parameters to default values.
>
> When booting a FreeBSD 5.2.1 miniinst ISO I get:
>
> (da1:sym0:0:1:0): READ(06). CDB: 8 0 0 1 1 0
> (da1:sym0:0:1:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
> (da1:sym0:0:1:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
> (da1:sym0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND asc:48,0
> (da1:sym0:0:1:0): Initiator detected error message received field 
> replaceable unit: 2
> (da1:sym0:0:1:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data)
> sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=3 DBC=11000000 SBCL=29
> (da1:sym0:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 0 20 0 d1 0 0 1 0
> (da1:sym0:0:1:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
> (da1:sym0:0:1:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
> (da1:sym0:0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND asc:48,0
> (da1:sym0:0:1:0): Initiator detected error message received field 
> replaceable unit: 2
> (da1:sym0:0:1:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data)
>
> Which I cannot find anything on.
>
> When booting a NetBSD 1.6.2 ISO I do not get many errors during the 
> install, but after the reboot it just breaks into the debugger:
>
> sd0(siop0:0:0:0): command with tag id 1 reset
> sd0: async, 8-bit transfers, tagged queueing
> sd0: sync (50.0ns offset 15), 16-bit (40.000MB/s) transfers, tagged 
> queueing
> siop0: unexpected phase mismatch 6
> sd0(siop0:0:0:0): parity error
> siop0: scsi bus reset
> sd0(siop0:0:0:0): command with tag id 1 reset
> sd0: async, 8-bit transfers, tagged queueing
> exec /sbin/init.bak: error 5
> init: not found
> panic: no init
> kdb breakpoint at 12c8354
> Stopped in pid 1 (init) at      cpu_Debugger+0x4:       nop
> db>
>
> Just wondering if anyone has any ideas on this.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jeremy
>
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