[plug] Failure to boot from SCSI

[Mike]

mm, If this was windows (cough)< I'd use Fdisk to set the
drive I wanted to boot from as 'active' etc

I take there are no 'ide' drives in the same system,

Rgds

Mike

At 12:28 PM 26/4/2002 +0800, you wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Justin [mailto:justin at inwa.com.au]
>> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 12:22 PM
>> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>> Subject: Re: [plug] Failure to boot from SCSI
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>> With your SCSI drives you can set them to power up at 
>> different times...
>>  From memory the delay is either set in the SCSI bios - or by 
>> giving the 
>> drive a higher ID number (its been a while since i have had 
>> to investigate 
>> this)...
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>Little bit more detail :)
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>I've tried setting the drives to power up at different intervals, as well as
>separating them so the LUN's are 0 2 4 6 instead of 0123.
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>I have also tried bypassing the UPS thinking it may be the culprit.
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>In answer to Mikes message
>"Isn't there a link on scsi drives or an option to control
>power up delay"
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>Yes - I have tried the delays - with no luck. I have an external drive case
>with plenty of power which I plan to make use of soon.
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>My primary concern is getting the server back up as it was before I started.
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>Thanks
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>Carl Gherardi
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