The cable was the problem.
I organised downtime and replaced the cable with an LVD cable we had and
all's well.
Thanks to both Dazza and Alan for your help.
Tony...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Young
> Sent: Friday, 9 February 2001 13:38
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [SLUG] SCSI disk problems
>
>
>
> I saw that Dazza mentioned this too - does this mean that
> something like the
> filesystem size is not likely to be an issue?
>
> If LVD cables are orange and interwoven then I guess I've just got a
> standard one. My sysadmin may have just grabbed one that was
> lying around.
> I'll chase one up.
>
> Thanks
> Tony...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alan Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, 9 February 2001 13:26
> > To: Tony Young
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [SLUG] SCSI disk problems
> >
> >
> > LVD are usually orange interwoven cables, with a terminater
> > at the end.
> >
> > You can get cables without terminaters, but you will need
> > them. The drive
> > may seem to work, but you will end up with problems from my
> > experence ( A
> > few hundred systems built/installed/configured, 3 this week alone!)
> >
> > Most controlers dont come with cables, unless its a retail
> > kit or a raid
> > controller.
> >
> > How much did the cable cost you? The cable should have
> > costed $100au and
> > above for a LVD one.
> >
> > We have them, Im not too sure about the cost..
> >
> > Regards, Alan Lee
> > Ecom Computers
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards, Alan Lee
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "DaZZa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 12:45 PM
> > Subject: Re: [SLUG] SCSI disk problems
> >
> >
> > > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've got a linux box - RedHat 6.1 base, 2.2.16 kernel
> > with nfsv3 patch
> > > > I'm using the aic7xxx SCSI driver for an Adaptec AIC-7892
> > Ultra 160/m
> > > > adapter.
> > > > I've got 1 20Gb SCSI drive (ID 0) Seagate ST318436LW
> > > > I've created one partition for the whole disk.
> > > >
> > > > I'm getting the following sorts of messages in my syslog:
> > > [...snipt...]
> > >
> > > > Unfortunately I don't know enough about SCSI drives to
> > know what's going
> > on
> > > > here.
> > > > Can anyone tell me what's causing these problems?
> > > > Is the drive dead?
> > > > Is there a bug in the driver?
> > > > Is it because I've created too big a file system?
> > >
> > > Get a batter quality SCSI cable. U160 drives need extremely
> > good quality
> > > cables to work properly. Chances are yours is a little
> > damaged, or not
> > > terminated properly, or even too long.
> > >
> > > Did you buy an LVD cable to go with it, or did you just use
> > any old thing?
> > >
> > > DaZZa
> > >
> > >
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