Installing disk on E45

[Mike Hamwy]

I have an old E45 box for testing and I need to install a 4GB disk beside the boot disk. The system will not boot when I plug the new disk in. The disk is a Seagate ST15150N.
any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Mike

check for the following , in this order only .

1. SCSI ID'd on the Disks , it looks that both the disks have the same id.

2. Terminator , it should be enabled on the physically last drive on the bus.

3. Cables SCSI pins tend to get bent if not put properly.

4. Power Connector to the new Disk , it should look clean and non carbon.

Manoj Srivastava

[Mike Hamwy]

Hi Manoj,
How do i check the SCSI ID for both disks? I'm not a system admin.

Thanks again

[Bill Hassell]

SCSI disks addresses are set with jumpers on the drive itself. There is no standard location or orientation other than there will be 3 (or 4 for HVFWD) jumpers and a jumper usually means a bit value of 1. Most disk manufacturers provide web info for their jumpers. You can see the bootable disks using the E45's boot ROMs by issuing the seach command.