Denys et al,
It's the firmware revision that's causing this, for the second system
anyway. See the SCSI/IO thread started by Tracy Johnson. It lists the
minimum firmware requirements for FW cards when used with Nike 20 arrays.
Scott
> This is strange indeed. You must have hit a bad batch of SCSI cards,
> either that or there is a firmware issue with the SCSI cards themselves.
>
> It might be good for you to post the part number of the SCSI cards and
> the firmware revs of same.
>
> Denys
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Craig Lalley
> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 9:50 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] Help: Mod 20, SCSI cards
>
> This is one for the records.
>
> I was installing two Mod 20's this weekend on two (2) machines.
>
> Install worked fine, but when I tried to boot from the primary, it
> failed
> miserably.
>
> I did all the tricks, to no avail.
>
> Luckily, the first SCSI card had a failure light and I replaced it.
>
> BAM, without having to do another install the system booted from the
> disc!
> I.E. The SCSI card did the WRITE but could not boot/read from the drive.
>
> OK, bad stff happens.
>
> On to the second system.
>
> No failure lights, Install succeeds, but will not see boot partion.
> Hmmm, it's
> was becoming a long day. I checked the firmware and software revisions
> (in
> MAPPER), everything was ok.
>
> So why not just try a new SCSI card? We put in the new SCSI card and
> viola,
> the system boots, without having to do a re-install. So the write
> WORKED but
> read/boot failed.
>
> What's up? Do old SCSI cards not work with the MOD 20's?
>
> Has anyone seen this before?
>
> I am posting this so others who may run into it.
>
> TIA,
>
> -Craig
> EchoTech, Inc.
> 541-619-1678
>
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