I have an old 040 NeXT cube that I would like to swap out the old Maxtor 340 MB hard drive. I have configured and installed my NeXTStep 3.0 OS onto a Seagate ST32550N hard drive that was attached externally to my system. I created a usable disktab entry for the drive, ran the disk utility to initialize the disk with 3 partitions, installed the boot block, ran newfs on each partition and dump/restore my original OS onto the first partition.
I then removed the drive from its external HD case and tried installing it internally in my NeXT cube. I have tried every combination of termination jumpers available on this hard drive and I continue to get SCSI errors. Has anyone gotten a Seagate ST32550N hard drive to work internally? What were your jumper settings? I have played with the J1 and J2 jumpers. I have the SCSI ID set to 1 on the J4 jumper. I know the dump and restore worked as I verified that the filesystem could be mounted and had the files from my original drive on it. I actually followed the directions listed on this forum for cloning NeXT drives.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Frustrated in CA.
Rick
Is it the only drive within Your cube? Did You remember to terminate it? Or did You terminate the other drive (if there is another one)? Does the termination recieve termination power from the drive?
J
Jenne:
Thank you for the post reply. I have only the one Seagate ST32550N installed in my NeXT cube. I have tried setting both the Terminator Power and SCSI Bus Termination jumpers on the drive. I did not have any jumpers set when I had this drive in my external HD case except for the SCSI ID setting on the J4 jumper being set to ID 4. When I had this drive setup as an external drive, it was connected to the NeXT cube and terminated with an external SCSI terminator. The NeXT cube had my original MAXTOR disk drive in it at the time of the OS transfer. Everything appeared to be going smoothly with the ST32550N drive while connected externally, but upon disconnecting and replacing the internal MAXTOR with the newly cloned Seagate drive, I began getting SCSI message errors.
Thank you.
Rick
Try this:
1.) Set the ID to ID 1
2.) Terminate the drive
3.) Set the terination power to "from drive"
4.) Install WhatEverStep (NeXT or Open)
5.) Change the boot parameters to "bsd(0,0,0)"
That should do.
J
Thank you for the suggestions. I had already tried that several different times. I think the issue is with this particular drive model. I'm going to try another drive and see if I can get it installed and booted as an external drive first. If that works, I will proceed to install it internally as a replacement drive.
Thanks again.
Rick
Just in case you've not found this or don't have the jumper settings:
http://www.bookcase.com/share/hardware/drives/seagate/scsi/st12550n.txtI'm not sure if I have this drive or not. If I do, I'll try to test it and/or see what settings I've got on it.
Good luck with it!
PS. If you have the errors you're getting handy, post'em, and I'll tell you if I got similar ones due to a termination problem (I've got'em written down somewhere)