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I had the same problem some time back - seems that in some cases - different
brands of SCSI adapters require different low level formats on the drives
you use with them. You may want to try a low level format (my utility to do
this was on my SCSI card BIOS).
----- Original Message -----
From: Michelle Weber <umweber@mcs.drexel.edu>
To: <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Plug] Scsi problems
> Yeah, i was using 2 ide drives, and since one has been replaced.
> I don't believe there's any irq conflict, though I notice in windows that
> 3 devices happened to be on irq 11, so before i booted into linux i went
> into the scsi config tool and put the card on irq 10.
> when i cat /proc/interrupts I don't see anything conflicting..
> I dont understand how if the only thing at all that changed was a 3 gig
> drive replaced by a 20 gig drive, why that my scsi drive would stop
> working, unless its something strange caused by my fresh install of
> readhat 6.1
>
> --
> Michelle Weber
> umweber@mcs.drexel.edu
>
>
> On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Mental wrote:
>
> > You didnt say if you had an ide drive before. Are you using a controller
> > you didnt used to use? Could there be a little IRQ problem going on?
> > Whats the interupt for each controler? Take it apart and re-seat every
> > thing?
> >
> >
> >
> > Mental
> > --
> >
> > "you make insanity respectable."
> > --Helcat on the subject of Mental.
> >
> > On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Michelle Weber wrote:
> >
> > > Alright, used to have redhat 6.0 and 5.2 on my system which booted
fine,
> > > and I also had a siig scsi adaptor, and a seagate scsi drive. For
both
> > > versions of redhat, if I insmodded advansys, I'd see the adaptor and
the
> > > drive, then later I just compiled this into the kernel. Well since I
got
> > > a new ide drive, I redid everything, and installed redhat 6.1 on a
clean
> > > drive. Now when I insmod advansys, it sees the adaptor, and it says 1
> > > host. Then it starts giving me all this weird time out errors, and
totally
> > > freezing my computer. Any ideas? I have about 2 gigs worth of stuff on
> > > there in an ext2 partition, so I can't really install the drivers in
> > > windows and get the stuff out of it.. The only way my system
configuration
> > > has changed is a different ide drive!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Michelle Weber
> > > umweber@mcs.drexel.edu
> > >
> > >
> > >
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