[Aurora-sparc-user] f771: error: invalid option `align-double'

[Jos van der Ende]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 18:41:23 -0600
"Stephen Ware" <sgware at gmail.com> wrote:

> > The OBP command to do that is probe-ide. This should give a list of attached IDE disks.
> > I do have a lot of experience with the OBP. ^^
> 
> Hmm... this could be my problem.  When I ran that command, it didn't
> recognize anything attached to it except the cd rom drive.  Does this
> indicate a hardware problem?

Mmm, that might indeed be. You'd best check the cabling and especially the master-slave settings of the drives. I've seen this behaviour before and it was caused by faulty jumper settings. You should not use cable select, just one master and one slave per IDE bus.

Another possibility is that the OBP does not recognize the drive. Ultra 10 systems officially support only 4.2-, 9- and 20 GB drives. Try running .version (including the leading dot) on the OBP prompt. If it's not already at 3.31.0, upgrading the firmware might help. If you need help with that, let me know.

Yet another possibility is that the drive is dud. Try replacing it.


-- 
Jos van der Ende <seraph at xs4all.nl>