Joshua Mazess on Sun, 21 Nov 1999 15:30:13 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [Plug] Scsi problems


Is the controller working? (i.e. can you validate it with a DOS-formatted SCSI
drive?) Can you get back to the old configuration before the HD and RedHat
upgrade? At least you might be able to salvage the data and move it somewhere
else... --Josh

Michelle Weber wrote:

> > I would like to see more information from your system like: Did you
> > configure your new hard drive as master or slave
> master
>
> Is your BIOS Plug and
> > Play?
> yep
>
> > Where do you have your diferent partitions? Where do you have Windows
> > and where do you have Linux?
> hda1 20 gigs fat32 (windows98)
> hdb has a 64 meg swap and the rest of the 1.6 gigs is ext2 (I dont
> remember the order) (redhat 6.1)
> sda1 2 gigs ext2
>
> > If your system is not P&P did you run setup to
> > autoconfigure your hard drive? Where di you install LILO?
> system is pnp
> lilo is on the mbr.
>
> --
> Michelle Weber
> umweber@mcs.drexel.edu
>
> > William
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michelle Weber <umweber@mcs.drexel.edu>
> > To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
> > Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 9:36 AM
> > Subject: [Plug] Scsi problems
> >
> >
> > >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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