On Monday 30 July 2001 13:31, Rafael Herrera wrote:
That termination is for the other end of the scsi bus, the one you access at the back of the computer. Your problems seem at the other end of the bus.
The bus is now: Controller (terminated) to Drive1 to Active LVD/SE terminator To me, it seems a natural thing to terminate the controller.
cable runs to the two drives. I am using the same active LVD/SE terminator after the drives that I used with only one drive. I have tried with and without termpower supply from the second drive.
If you have an external terminator, the other drives don't need to have termination or termination power enabled.
I know it ought to be that way, but I had to try.
Where are you installing linux? Does the BIOS of your scsi adapter let you configure from which device to boot? If so, you may need to specify the device ID of the disk you want to boot from. On my system, I also need to put this on my lilo.conf:
disk = /dev/sda # The first SCSI disk ... bios = 0x80 # ... is the first one at boot time disk = /dev/sdb # The second SCSI disk ... bios = 0x81 # ... is the second one at boot time
I've linux installed in sda.
I tried that specification in lilo.conf, before reinstalling. It didn't work then, but I think I should try it again. I have lilo on the MBR of /dev/hda, linux partitions /, /boot and swap on /dev/sda and I would like to add /dev/sdb when I succeed in getting the second drive attached to a running system. Best regards, David List