Thane,
Yes I would suspect the scsi cable(s) first also. No, I have net even
opened the server box yet. LOL! Every time I put my hands into this server
too soon, I somehow muck something up. Not fear, just some healthy
respect....... :)
Besides this one is so foreign to me in the past 33yr of scsi-land, I
wanted to ask the IT gurus their thoughts first. Thank you. More later this
afternoon after I dig around a bit.
Duncan
At 12:57 09/28/2008 -0300, you wrote:
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