regarding I/O device scanning while installing HPUX 10.20

[omlingrampure]

Dear all

I am facing problem while installing HPUX 10.20 (O.S is on CDROM) ,System HP9000 800 series model F30
(F-class server)
The problem is as follows.
boot device is CDROM drive(boot command is
52.0.0)
while installing the sytem will display as
scanning of I/O devices .There iwere no disk device found during the scan .make sure that the destination disks are connected & power on or rescan the I/O device: y/n?

I have tried with new hard disk,cdrom drive new scsi cable ,changing jumper but above not solved. but I am able access the harddisks by using manual boot commands like 52.1.0 it will
bad ipl code and come to the pompt.
Pl if any one found or face the above said problem . pl send the solution.

regards

rampure

[B. Hulst]

Hi,

The server is quite old. Are you sure HPUX 10.20 will run on it?

Try booting with HPUX 9.x if you have available.

It might find your disk(s)...

Then you know the hardware and cables and jumpers should be fine. :-)

Regards,
Bob

[omlingrampure]

Dear BoB
I will try your solution ,still if you found
any solution regading the said problem.Kindly
send to mail

thanks and regards
Rampure

[Trond Haugen]

The F30 was taken off the pricelist in 1994 and HP-UX introduced in 1996. So it's certainly not supported.
I would go for 9.0 or 9.04 of you can find it. As both are equaly (un)suported as 10.20.

[Trond Haugen]

What I ment to write was that "HP-UX 10.20 introduced in 1996."

Trond

[B. Hulst]

Hi,

I have never seen a F30.
I started with the G40 servers. :)

I thought Linux might run on it but basically there seems to be no results of all the attempts to port linux for the old PA RISC servers.

See
http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechDocumentDetailPage_IDX/1,1701,276,00.html

There used to be a Puffin Group but they don't seem to be active in porting anymore...

So HP-UX 9.04 is the latest compatible (now unsupported) release for the F30.

Regards,
Bob

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

Look, I still run 11.00 (03/2000 iirc) on a 755/99 with 512MB RAM, >50GB of disks and 100BTX. The 755 was quite a new system in 1993-4, I read.


10.20 should work on Your system, I think the problem could be the HP-PB disks or wrong os media.
If You use a series 700 CD it just can't work due to the different I/O system. (10.20 was well before that unification)

Look at the following posting:
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.sys.hp.hpux/2003-10/0113.html

It also shows that the box should work with 10.20.

OTOH, if You want my personal opinion:
If the system is not a collectors item or radiator for You: Dump it and spent $100-500 on a reasonable system.
my A180 wasn't more than $200 (with additional ram, disks and 4-port nic, that is) and a C3600 is also around $300 usually and will give 20times the performance with less hassle.

[Gerhard Roets]

Hi rampure

Make sure all the SCSI connectors are terminated, even if it seems nothing is connected to it. If it is anything like a g-class the internal SCSI must be terminated externally on the core-io.

Leave the boot path standard. It was working ther boot command only showed where the cd was.

The CD and hard disks is not on the same bus.

HTH
GErhard