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Well, your best bet would be to borrow a drive and test it. I mean, I have some SCSI
drives (not for sale) that I could toast for this sort of test. Don't you have any
friends with spare parts lying around or anything? You could also try a different
controller -- Adaptec recommended. On a personal note, I'm not too fond of
refurbished equipment, and I'm not sure I'd trust something as critical as a hard
drive, but that's just me. Then again, I've had new equipment die on me, so the key
here, really, is backups. But I never heed my own advice. --Josh
Michelle Weber wrote:
> Well. I only have one scsi drive, so I can't test that.
> I do have the 3 gig drive with redhat 6.0 on it, but im not sure if the
> latest kernel I used is on there because I was using a different boot
> partition at the time... If I can get it back to the original
> configuration (or pretty close to it) what the heck would the problem be
> if it no longer works? The drive isn't old, it's a replacement of the
> original which was totally fubared, so it's been factory refurbished.
>
> --
> Michelle Weber
> umweber@mcs.drexel.edu
>
> On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Joshua Mazess wrote:
>
> > 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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