[H-GEN] scsi drive won't spin up

[Ewan Edwards]

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On Wednesday 29 January 2003 05:04 pm, Tony Nugent wrote:
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> On Wed Jan 29 2003 at 16:24, "James C. McPherson" wrote:
> > > I have a scsi drive here (18Gb seagate barracuda) that I've tried
> > > connecting to an adaptec aha-2940UW controller card (which works
> > > fine, although it does not seem to have a bios on it).  When the
> > > aic7xxx driver tries to initialise the drive, it complains that it
> > > fails to spin up.  (I would try diagnostics on it, but without a
> > > bios on the card I can't easily do this).
> >
> > I'd be more suspicious of the card to start with. Do you have another
> > scsi card you can attach the two drives to in order to test them? If the
> > drives work fine on another controller then you've got an interesting
> > aic7xxx.
>
> No, I don't have another card here that can take 68-pin scsi.

I have a 29160 PCI card that I can bring along on Saturday if you want to try 
that out or borrow for a few days.


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