On Thursday 30 January 2003 08:28 am, Tony Alfrey wrote: > On Thursday 30 January 2003 05:39 am, Net Llama! wrote: <snip> > > > > What kind of controller, > > The canonical Symbios 53C875 Ultra SCSI chipset > > > and what kind of disks? > > Two 9 GB Seagates and an 18 GB Seagate. > > > When its missing > > some disks, is it reassigning the SCSI IDs accordingly to the disks > > that it does see, or does it remember that the 'missing' ones > > exist, and keep the ID assignments the same? > > I'm not sure. It's hard for me to see SCSI ID assignments if I don't > boot an OS so I can then run fdisk.
Next time it happens, I'll boot from a floppy and see if I can get fdisk running that way. > I'll try a setup screen on > boot-up but the bios setup does not "know" about SCSI, only IDE. The > bios diagnostic screen on boot-up does not show SCSI ID numbers, just > info about sectors, model number, etc. > > > Are you seeing errors, or just > > that sda is not being detected? Do you need all the disks to boot > > up? > Lonni, while it is not acting up now, when I try to use the SCSI configuration utility that can be entered on boot-up, it seems to not be functioning properly, I cannot access all of the features that are supposed to be available and menus seem to be incomplete. It looks like some kind of ROM problem associated with the controller. I will see if there is some obvious ROM that goes with the controller and see if I can get another?? On SCSI controller boot-up (after bios boot), I see SCSI ID numbers (the jumper selections on the SCSI connector) but nowhere do I see a graphical display of SCSI IDs such as sda, sdb, etc. Isn't that part of the kernel?? -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd Rather Be Sailing" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
