[RAS] Nebka disk

[Thomas Krichel]

  Christian Zimmermann writes
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Thomas Krichel wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>  Christian Zimmermann writes
>>
>>> I managed BIOS to recognize the 140Gb disk by fiddling in the RAID
>>> configuration utillity. But linux does not want to boot from it.
>>
>>  What si the error? Do you see the grub screen?
>
> Something like "try F1 to try booting", forever.
>
> I put 80 GB back inbto the first slot, 140GB in the other. BIOS 
> recognizes them. Booted with root on sda1 (sdb1 does not work). 
> Everything except sdb1 is not recognized.

  from dmesg, at first it is seen
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
SCSI device sdb: 286716544 512-byte hdwr sectors (146799 MB)
sdb: assuming Write Enabled
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 286716544 512-byte hdwr sectors (146799 MB)
sdb: assuming Write Enabled
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb: unknown partition table
sd 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb


  but later

aacraid: Host adapter reset request. SCSI hang ?
aacraid: Host adapter reset request. SCSI hang ?
aacraid: Host adapter reset request. SCSI hang ?

  No clue. That's the problem with scsi, very flaky.

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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