Re: [WISPA] strange mt issue
Reminds me of what happened when I took the backup file from a routerboard and tried to restore it on a new X86 board(WRAP). It did something very similar, and rendered my CF inoperable! (there goes my $40!). On 2/23/07, Marlon K. Schafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, OK, this is really strange. Picked up a new MT ide drive card and 4 port nic card to use as a backup router. Put the unit in the pc and it stops at loading E. OK, bad unit. Took it back to Spokane and Bob K. put that unit into a machine he'd been working on. Even worse problem for him. Hm. So in goes another chip to make sure that it's not a puter problem. THAT one now won't work either. It had been one he'd already been using. Use a new machine, load up a new ide chip for me. I saw him do it. Take that one home, put it in the pc, same thing! Loading E. Put it into another machine, won't work there either. Hook up a hard drive to the port, that won't boot. 4 machines and 4 hard drives later i still don't have a config that works! Put that ide chip in any pc and it kills the ide port. What the $%# over? Anyone seen anything like this before? Bob tells me that nothing he puts in the machine that worked before I got there will work now either. Could that first machine of mine had some kind of bios virus that has now spread to all other boxes? The machine was my old mail server, a working pull used up till a few months ago. The next machine was my old mt router, a working pull sitting on the shelf for over a year (it had flaked out so I replaced the whole thing and tossed the chip). The next machine was my old web server (all three the same hardware bought at the same time as i recall). The last machine was an old windows server or something. Don't ever remember for sure. It has two scsi drives in it, that's the only thing that'll still boot. But only to the two scsi drives, nothing ide. Ideas thanks, marlon -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
RE: [WISPA] strange mt issue
The machine might not be able to identify the card right, and screws it up upon access it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 1:09 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] strange mt issue Hi All, OK, this is really strange. Picked up a new MT ide drive card and 4 port nic card to use as a backup router. Put the unit in the pc and it stops at loading E. OK, bad unit. Took it back to Spokane and Bob K. put that unit into a machine he'd been working on. Even worse problem for him. Hm. So in goes another chip to make sure that it's not a puter problem. THAT one now won't work either. It had been one he'd already been using. Use a new machine, load up a new ide chip for me. I saw him do it. Take that one home, put it in the pc, same thing! Loading E. Put it into another machine, won't work there either. Hook up a hard drive to the port, that won't boot. 4 machines and 4 hard drives later i still don't have a config that works! Put that ide chip in any pc and it kills the ide port. What the $%# over? Anyone seen anything like this before? Bob tells me that nothing he puts in the machine that worked before I got there will work now either. Could that first machine of mine had some kind of bios virus that has now spread to all other boxes? The machine was my old mail server, a working pull used up till a few months ago. The next machine was my old mt router, a working pull sitting on the shelf for over a year (it had flaked out so I replaced the whole thing and tossed the chip). The next machine was my old web server (all three the same hardware bought at the same time as i recall). The last machine was an old windows server or something. Don't ever remember for sure. It has two scsi drives in it, that's the only thing that'll still boot. But only to the two scsi drives, nothing ide. Ideas thanks, marlon -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] strange mt issue
But why would that mess up the card? Especially when the machine had been used as an mt router before? And why would it then also be unable to work with any other drives installed? marlon - Original Message - From: Dennis Burgess - 2K Wireless [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 7:30 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] strange mt issue The machine might not be able to identify the card right, and screws it up upon access it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 1:09 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] strange mt issue Hi All, OK, this is really strange. Picked up a new MT ide drive card and 4 port nic card to use as a backup router. Put the unit in the pc and it stops at loading E. OK, bad unit. Took it back to Spokane and Bob K. put that unit into a machine he'd been working on. Even worse problem for him. Hm. So in goes another chip to make sure that it's not a puter problem. THAT one now won't work either. It had been one he'd already been using. Use a new machine, load up a new ide chip for me. I saw him do it. Take that one home, put it in the pc, same thing! Loading E. Put it into another machine, won't work there either. Hook up a hard drive to the port, that won't boot. 4 machines and 4 hard drives later i still don't have a config that works! Put that ide chip in any pc and it kills the ide port. What the $%# over? Anyone seen anything like this before? Bob tells me that nothing he puts in the machine that worked before I got there will work now either. Could that first machine of mine had some kind of bios virus that has now spread to all other boxes? The machine was my old mail server, a working pull used up till a few months ago. The next machine was my old mt router, a working pull sitting on the shelf for over a year (it had flaked out so I replaced the whole thing and tossed the chip). The next machine was my old web server (all three the same hardware bought at the same time as i recall). The last machine was an old windows server or something. Don't ever remember for sure. It has two scsi drives in it, that's the only thing that'll still boot. But only to the two scsi drives, nothing ide. Ideas thanks, marlon -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
RE: [WISPA] strange mt issue
The example I am thinking of is back when they had loaders for HDs bigger than whatever size it was. Basically, the bios is INCORRECTLY identifying the sectors, etc, on the drive, and sure it works to start, but after it gets so far and the sectors or something is messed up, it basically trashes the data on the drive, cause it don't know how to read and write correctly. Just a hunch, maybe something like LBA mode, or something. Try to get the specs for the IDE drive, i.e. sectors, and all the other data, and put that in manually, see if it will pull up then. Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:59 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] strange mt issue But why would that mess up the card? Especially when the machine had been used as an mt router before? And why would it then also be unable to work with any other drives installed? marlon - Original Message - From: Dennis Burgess - 2K Wireless [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 7:30 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] strange mt issue The machine might not be able to identify the card right, and screws it up upon access it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 1:09 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] strange mt issue Hi All, OK, this is really strange. Picked up a new MT ide drive card and 4 port nic card to use as a backup router. Put the unit in the pc and it stops at loading E. OK, bad unit. Took it back to Spokane and Bob K. put that unit into a machine he'd been working on. Even worse problem for him. Hm. So in goes another chip to make sure that it's not a puter problem. THAT one now won't work either. It had been one he'd already been using. Use a new machine, load up a new ide chip for me. I saw him do it. Take that one home, put it in the pc, same thing! Loading E. Put it into another machine, won't work there either. Hook up a hard drive to the port, that won't boot. 4 machines and 4 hard drives later i still don't have a config that works! Put that ide chip in any pc and it kills the ide port. What the $%# over? Anyone seen anything like this before? Bob tells me that nothing he puts in the machine that worked before I got there will work now either. Could that first machine of mine had some kind of bios virus that has now spread to all other boxes? The machine was my old mail server, a working pull used up till a few months ago. The next machine was my old mt router, a working pull sitting on the shelf for over a year (it had flaked out so I replaced the whole thing and tossed the chip). The next machine was my old web server (all three the same hardware bought at the same time as i recall). The last machine was an old windows server or something. Don't ever remember for sure. It has two scsi drives in it, that's the only thing that'll still boot. But only to the two scsi drives, nothing ide. Ideas thanks, marlon -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
