On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 16:27, Guy Zelck wrote: > It's not that. I still see the Ctrl-A msg but once having chosen this > the card itself reports that it can't see any scsi controller so I can't > get to any of the menus. This is only so on my new computer and I only > discoverd this recently. Strangely enough it functions normally like > this. Now I've heard that there are some particular pci slots with fixed > IRQs or sth., I should try moving the card to another pci slot. Or is > the pci standard too new for the card? > > Back to my file corruption problem which I can reproduce whenever I want > (and when I don't want), I think the one thing I could do to rule out > xfs as the culprit is either go for a recent kernel (2.4.18) in which a > newer xfs is compiled or back up every fs, re-create them with reiserfs > on them and then restore the backups. Then test and see if the problem > remains. I also intend to test the cpu with 'cpuburn'. > > Guy.
It's definitely tough to diagnose a problem thru email. From what you've posted so far, however, I would venture to say that there are some problems somewhere on your scsi bus. You've pretty much ruled out quite a bit of stuff so far. The reason I got a 3940U was so that I could isolate my primary drives (when I did have scsi) from all other devices (scanners, tape drives, hard drives that were slower, etc) so that bus performance would not be affected. Segregation of your primary drives and everything else is mandatory when you are diagnosing a problem. Have you tried removing everything but your primary drives and then attempting to replicate the problem? If the card bios itself is being stepped on, that could explain why you are unable to access the configuration menu. This is a serious problem. In cases like this, the correct procedure is isolation, which entails removing everything entirely from your system except the essentials, which are scsi and video. Remove all scsi devices except the primary drives and attempt to boot the system, looking for normal operation. What I would probably do first is attempt to get into the card configuration menu. Let me know how this goes. BTW, have there been any changes to the bios configuration on this machine? Cheers, LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ��������������������������������������������������� _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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