well the hard disk is definitely dead. It spins momentarily at boot (linux & mac) but then stops. tried it on several machines/scsi cards. Cant be read or identified. Also the AHA1542B scsi is definitely refusing to function. Tried it on several machines. It gave a good 10 years service so maybe thats that too ? Is it possibly (sorry about this!) a year 2k issue ? the adaptec www site mentions nothing about bios problems with these cards but it does seem like a bios problem rather than hardware. Any bios gurus here? can anyone tell me what is likely to have killed this disk and scsi card like that anyway ? i dont want a repeat performance with new hardware ... thanks for any help -ve
Try swaping the controller , and then the HD to see wich is bad.
At 04:01 PM 12/27/1999 +0200, ve wrote:
thats nothing - i was running opera and installing a .rpm at the same time when my /usr hard disk ground to a halt !! the hard disk is now dead and the scsi card seems to have gone with it.
anyway - is there a chance to try and save this disk ? It doesnt look
good -
i tried it on another Linux system and on some macs and it doesnt show up at all !? any help appreciated
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