External SCSI-Devices not seen under 2.5.1

Hello Managers,

here's the summary to the following question:

>I have a rather annoying problem with our Netra i (Sparc5) and

>external SCSI-devices: no matter what I try (boot -r, probe-scsi,

>probe-scsi-all, touch /reconfigure), the machine won't see the

>two external SCSI-devices attached to it ... Just in case it matters,

>the internal bootdrive is SCSI-ID 3, the CD-Rom is on 6 and the

>external devices are on 4 and 5.

A big thankyou goes out to:

Eugene Kramer <eugene@uniteq.com>

Vipin Gupta <Vipin.Gupta@blr.sni.de>

Shriman Gurung <SG@datcon.co.uk>

Stefan Voss <s.voss@terradata.de>

Movva Mohan Kumar <movvam@duettech.com>

A.PADMA RAO-SYSADMIN" <paddy@axes-mach01.dsccc.com>

AMH <ahoerter@netcom.com>

Erwin Fritz <efritz@glja.com>

Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>

"MALLARD, Derek" <dmallard@shl.com>

Syed Zaeem Hosain <szh@zcon.com>

Bismark Espinoza <bismark@alta.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>

David S. Foster <foster@bial1.ucsd.edu>

sandeep patni <sandeeppatni@hotmail.com>

As it turned out, the problem was a faulty SCSI-Connector on the

external case. As soon as we replaced it, everything worked as

expected.

Thanks again for all those speedy responses,

  Roman

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