Everything has the latest firmware, including the drives.
My supplyer has put it down to the extra bit of cable the removeable racks
give.. causeing the bus to die or something.
.. Dose this seam right? Wrong? Pulling my leg?
Regards, Alan Lee
Ecom Computers
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marty Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Alan Lee'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 7:25 AM
Subject: RE: [SLUG] Adaptec 2100S
> Hi Alan,
>
> I had a problem similar to this using Quantum drives and a DPT millenium
> controller.
>
> The key to it was in how the SCSI controller detected the drives - it was
> detecting the first as "drive" and the others as "disk".
>
> DPT kept saying Quantums were sick and that a flash upgrade was available
> for the disk controllers. Is there a flash upgade available for your
> drives? We never applied the quantum one.
>
> Our solution was in trying a 4th SCSI ribbon cable. Unbelievable. The
first
> 3, including the new one which came with the controller and two others I
> had lying around didn't work. 4th time lucky.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Cheers
> Marty
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Lee [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 10:52 PM
> To: SLUG
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Adaptec 2100S
>
> The problem im getting is when using removeable racks, the 2nd drive will
> always fail no matter what we do. If we use diffrent HDD racks, they will
> do the same. Even if we swap the drives around, it will always be the 2nd
> drive.
>
> The RAID BIOS will report the drive has been failed. It will build the
> array perfectly (even in nobuild mode), format ok, but as soon as any data
> after that point is put on it will fail. Even under Dos, or Linux. Will
> just sit there and beep its head off...
>
> Regards, Alan Lee
> Ecom Computers Australia
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dean Hamstead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "George Vieira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "'Alan Lee'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "SLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 4:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Adaptec 2100S
>
>
> > Having missed the first email of this thread, (so i dont
> > know whats going on) I have a working adaptec 2100s raid
> > (on a dual p3 800). Needless to say install was boot strapped
> > on but now the drivers are in place everything is fine.
> >
> > Anyway yeah, so i may be able to help.
> >
> > But as far as RAID setup went, the disks (ibm) went in the
> > rack, i grouped them in pairs, mirrored them, and they are
> > working perfectly...
> >
> > Dean
> >
> > George Vieira wrote:
> > >
> > > I guess that your running *nix? WHat OS and version are you running?
> > >
> > > I have seen problems with RH6.2 until you use the latest version ( i
> used
> > > bleeding edge )
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > George Vieira
> > > Network Administrator
> > > http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
> > > PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9
> A10C
> > > PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Alan Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 2:56 PM
> > > To: SLUG
> > > Subject: [SLUG] Adaptec 2100S
> > >
> > > Anyone played with the Adaptec 2100S SCSI RAID card before? Anyone
got
> it
> > > working 100% correctly with hot swappable drives/racks?
> > >
> > > We are using RAID1 with 2 drives.
> > >
> > > We get the problem after we build the array within the RAID bios, and
> as
> > > soon as we try and do any data transfers/access it fails, claiming the
> 2nd
> > > drive has died. We swap the drives over, and get excatly the same on
> the
> > > 2nd drive again. We have used 2 diffrent brand drives, latest
firmware
> > > everything, diffrent motherboards, diffrent size hdd's and everything
> else
> > > we can think of. We have used RH seires racks, Kingston ones and also
> > > another brand which is worth $1000AU+ per HDD rack. All of them say
> they
> > > will work, but dont. As soon as we take the drives out of the racks,
> it
> > > works fine. Also it works on SCSI2, but this is "too slow" according
> to
> the
> > > customer.
> > >
> > > Any idea's? Ive tryed every thing really, even M$!
> > >
> > > I know of another company haveing excatly the same problem. But, using
> RAID5
> > > and RAID0 on the same card, with 6 drives in total
> > >
> > > Regards, Alan Lee
> > > Ecom Computers Australia
> > >
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