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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