On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 01:43:03PM +0100, John N S Gill wrote:
>> I'm trying to add a Seagate ST336704LW to a Redhat 6.1 system.
>> When the system boots it is unable to the detect the new disk. It
> gets to the point when it tries to detect the disk and then keeps
> issuing messages like "aborting due to timeout" + tells me it is
> trying harder but never succeeds. I'm assuming it is probing the
> disk for geometry information and isn't getting a response.
> Any advice on what to try from here would be most welcome..
Are you sure hardware is OK i.e. no clashing SCSI IDs, chain terminated at
both ends etc. Does the Adaptec BIOS see the drive OK ? If you go to the
Adaptec BIOS (probably ctrl-A at the BIOS banner, then select your
controller from the list, given that you have two) can you run verify on the
drive ? Have you tried the drive on the other controller (or the other
channel - I'm not sure if the messages you enclosed showed two cards or a
dual channel card, though I think two cards).
Regards,
Niall O Broin
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