On Thursday 30 January 2003 05:39 am, Net Llama! wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Tony Alfrey wrote: > > Hi list. > > > > A not very linux-like question so please forgive me if it's > > off-topic. My box has developed a worrisome problem. When I reboot > > (to switch back and forth to the Evil OS) my disk controller does > > not see all of my hard drives. My box is SCSI and the disk > > controller is on the Intel motherboard. It does not always 'miss' > > the same drives. Ctl-Alt-Del does not help, nor does the > > front-panel reset button, but a full power down, wait a minute and > > power up does fine. It never misses a drive while the box is > > running; only at reboot. > > I hope it's a power supply problem since that is an easy fix. > > Nothing seems warm in the box; I have lots of fans. > > Any ideas? > > What kind of controller,
The canonical Symbios 53C875 Ultra SCSI chipset > and what kind of disks? Two 9 GB Seagates and an 18 GB Seagate. > When its missing > some disks, is it reassigning the SCSI IDs accordingly to the disks > that it does see, or does it remember that the 'missing' ones exist, > and keep the ID assignments the same? I'm not sure. It's hard for me to see SCSI ID assignments if I don't boot an OS so I can then run fdisk. I'll try a setup screen on boot-up but the bios setup does not "know" about SCSI, only IDE. The bios diagnostic screen on boot-up does not show SCSI ID numbers, just info about sectors, model number, etc. > Are you seeing errors, or just > that sda is not being detected? Do you need all the disks to boot > up? sda is the bootable drive (the one with a properly configured mbr) so if I don't get that one, I get zip. Sometimes I get this one, sometimes not. My boot manager in mbr (Boot Magic; just a chain loader) does not see the 'missing' disk partitions and then complains but will boot what it does see if I at least get sda. -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd Rather Be Sailing" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
