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Hi

I just tried installing Solaris 9 on a spare disk in my Ultra 30.
Everything installed smoothly but I have a problem after the
system was rebooted: I get the following warnings continuously
and the hard disk is being written to continuously as they get appended
to /var/adm/messaages.

Jun  2 11:16:37 viking genunix: [ID 405830 kern.warning] WARNING: Device sd6
failed to power up.
Jun  2 11:16:37 viking genunix: [ID 749148 kern.warning] WARNING: Please see
your system administrator or reboot.

The same system works fine with Solaris 8:
$ cat /etc/release
                       Solaris 8 10/00 s28s_u2wos_11b SPARC
           Copyright 2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                            Assembled 31 August 2000
                     Solaris 8 Maintenance Update 6 applied

prtconf -v on Solaris 9 gives:

            sd, instance #6
                System properties:
                    name='lun' type=int items=1
                        value=00000000
                    name='target' type=int items=1
                        value=00000006
                    name='class' type=string items=1
                        value='scsi'
                Driver properties:
                    name='removable-media' type=boolean dev=none
                    name='pm-components' type=string items=3 dev=none
                        value='NAME=spindle-motor' + '0=off' + '1=on'
                    name='pm-hardware-state' type=string items=1 dev=none
                        value='needs-suspend-resume'
                    name='ddi-kernel-ioctl' type=boolean dev=none
                Hardware properties:
                    name='inquiry-revision-id' type=string items=1
                        value='1.10'
                    name='inquiry-product-id' type=string items=1
                        value='CD-ROM PX-40TS'
                    name='inquiry-vendor-id' type=string items=1
                        value='PLEXTOR'
                    name='inquiry-device-type' type=int items=1
                        value=00000005

prtconf -v on Solaris 8 gives:

            sd, instance #6
                System properties:
                    name <lun> length <4>
                        value <0x00000000>.
                    name <target> length <4>
                        value <0x00000006>.
                    name <class> length <5>
                        value 'scsi'
                Driver properties:
                    name <inquiry-revision-id> length <5>
                        value '1.10'
                    name <inquiry-product-id> length <15>
                        value 'CD-ROM PX-40TS'
                    name <inquiry-vendor-id> length <8>
                        value 'PLEXTOR'
                    name <removable-media> length <0> -- <no value>.
                    name <pm-components> length <30>
                        value 'NAME=spindle-motor' + '0=off' + '1=on'
                    name <pm-hardware-state> length <21>
                        value 'needs-suspend-resume'
                    name <ddi-kernel-ioctl> length <0> -- <no value>.

I tried upgrading to the latest CDROM firmware (1.13) but it does not help.

Is there anything I can do to make the system usable short of removing the
CDROM drive?

Thanks

Nick

To send me e-mail replace spam by nick in the from address.

Just a quick follow up to my own post.
If I disable vold for the CDROM I only get the messages when I
boot the system. I can still mount CDROMs manually.

Quote:

> Thanks

> Nick

> To send me e-mail replace spam by nick in the from address.

Quote:>Hi

>I just tried installing Solaris 9 on a spare disk in my Ultra 30.
>Everything installed smoothly but I have a problem after the
>system was rebooted: I get the following warnings continuously
>and the hard disk is being written to continuously as they get appended
>to /var/adm/messaages.

>Jun  2 11:16:37 viking genunix: [ID 405830 kern.warning] WARNING: Device sd6
>failed to power up.
>Jun  2 11:16:37 viking genunix: [ID 749148 kern.warning] WARNING: Please see
>your system administrator or reboot.

>The same system works fine with Solaris 8:
>$ cat /etc/release
>                       Solaris 8 10/00 s28s_u2wos_11b SPARC
>           Copyright 2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
>                            Assembled 31 August 2000
>                     Solaris 8 Maintenance Update 6 applied

A bug that appeard in the first S9 beta...

I send a bug report to Sun last september but nothing happened :-(
A workaround is to put a readable CD into the drive and then try to
open the device. If you have a readable CD in the drive when rebooting,
everything works fine.

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Thanks. That was an effective work around for the bug.

Is this just a problem with Plextor CD-ROMs?

I also have a system with a Sun/Toshiba drive:
/usr/local/sbin/scsiinfo -p
...
Removable CD-ROM:       TOSHIBA  XM6201TASUN32XCD 1103          [ASL]

Regards

Nick

Joerg,

I tried to install you scg driver on Solaris 9 and got this error on
installation:

## Executing postinstall script.
Jun 18 17:27:06 alexhome krtld: /usr/kernel/drv/sparcv9/scg: undefined symbol
devfsadm: driver failed to attach: scg
Warning: Driver (scg) successfully added to system but failed to attach
Jun 18 17:27:06 alexhome krtld:  'cnputc'
Jun 18 17:27:06 alexhome krtld: WARNING: mod_load: cannot load module 'scg'
Installation of <SCHILYscg> was successful.

Is it any workaround for this?

Thank you,
Alexey

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