Dave Beck (dave@arginine.umdnj.edu)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:48:44 -0500
So, I have to ask, and please don't take insult:
there are no SCSI ID conflicts? I don't believe
the ANS internal SCSI hardware does LUNs correctly
(even if it did, good God avoid them at all costs).
Quoting Ryan Meader (rmeader@blm.net):
> On Wed, Feb 17, 1999, Dave Beck <dave@arginine.umdnj.edu> wrote:
>
> >Simply having the drive connected causes the boot process to fail?
> >That is really bizzare. Do you have a log of the boot and any
> >errors related to the failure? I'm going to assume the failure
> >occurs during the kernel init of the internal SCSI driver? Or is
> >it a quik thing?
>
> Basically, the kernel runs the SCSI initialization scripts, and they keep
> timing out and re-running over and over. The only way to boot
> successfully is to disconnect the drive until after boot-time.
>
> I'll ask our sysadmin if he can log the errors, or at least write them
> down. It's a long, ten-line-plus piece of information that repeats, so
> that might take a little while to get.
>
> -R.
>
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