At 12:47 PM 28/09/2008, DHSinclair wrote:
Thane,
Yes, I do plan to use my Bart's CD a bit later. I did one check last
night b4 bed by booting into the low level bios for the A7499 chip
of the RAID card -<ctrl>A - during the server post. This got me to
the low-speed side of the card, but it is here that I can view/scan
both of the card's channels- A and B. The B channel holds the card's
controller, a CDROM, and my dds tape unit. This is correct and expected.
Sadly, when I scanned the A channel (U160) all I saw was the RAID
Card's controller. None of the 3 installed and running hds answered
the scan. Odd. This I have never seen before in scsi-land.
This leads me to posit a bad Channel A cable, the RAID cage (SCA80)
interface board, or, the RAID controller card as possible
suspects. The hard drives do actually spin up, so I conclude that
+12v is working after a fashion. I will check +5v today and
carefully inspect the cable, cage and RAID card. No, I have ruled
out the server psu either!
If nothing shows up, then I will proceed to drive the Bart's CD.
This is a weird one for me. Thank you for the shout.
I'd start by switching SCSI cables, then SCSI connectors. (You've
probably already done this, I know.)
T
