[plug] Failure to boot from SCSI

[Mike]

Isn't there a link on scsi drives or an option to control
power up delay - had that on some ibm 1gig scsis some time ago ?

rdgs

mike


At 12:16 PM 26/4/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>Related to the need for a debian CD.
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>I recently took our Debian server down to add more file space.
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>I appear to have some issue with all disks powering up at the same time.
>Probably a power supply issue - 4 new 10000rpm cheetah drives. The system
>would start to power up then immediately switch itself off before even
>getting to memory check stage.
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>I took them all offline to get the system back up and running as it was, and
>the 2G SCSI drive it was running from is no longer booting, or even
>attempting to boot. The drive is being recognized correctly on bootup.
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>It a dual ASUS P2X (where is is a letter between B and F) board.
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>Any idea as to what could have happened?
>
>The BIOS is still keeping time so that doesn't appear to be the problem, and
>i'm at a loss for ideas.
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>Thanks
>
>Carl Gherardi
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