Sparc Station 10 external SCSI Problems

Hi folks,
i have installed Solaris 8 (10/01) on a Sparc Station 10.
All worked fine, except, that only 2 drives from the external SCSI-Array (4 drives ) are recognized by the system.
The format-command hangs for more than 5 Minutes after starting it and then displays ALL drives, but 2 of the
ext. are shown as unknown drivetype.
In the diag probe-scsi-all, all drives are showed correctly.
The SCSI configuration: 3 SCSI Controllers .
2 internal HD's (1.0 GB) and (i hope for the future) 4
external. CDROM is attach one the external connector
from the internal drivecontroller.
Any ideas... ?
Thx in adavance.
Peter
[email protected]

hi,
usually when you see 'drive type unknown' it means that the system does not recognise what type of disk it is. you could try selecting the disk, reformat it or give it a 'type'. failing this, it is a new disk required..
hope this helps
M

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