John, The Seagate uses a 50 pin cable. It's the only device on the SCSI card. The Tekram card refers to some kind of automated terminator, but as for the drive, it came with the terminator enabled by default. I left it that way. News, tho. I did the low level format and verify, and reinstalled SuSE 7.0. Since then it's been doing some very weird stuff, but only off and on. For example, I'm getting httpd-conf errors at boot up, but not at every boot up. The warn file reports problems with PHP (3). So no surprise there. But, on some boot ups, when I go to log in, it rejects my log-in. What I mean is, I don't see the next line, "password:". As soon as I type in something and hit enter, I get "login incorrect". And sometimes that's followed by a "respawning too fast" message. And although the segmentation faults aren't as numerous as they were after the first install, they're still appearing from time-toi-time. But I just haven't yet had the time to sit down and figure out which specific problems are occuring, where, and what to do to fix them. But 7.1 still wouldn't install. Oh, and I'm getting "martian destination" messages on eth0. Finally, in previous installs, rc.config (I forget where--sorry) refers to my two NIC modules, the 3c509 and the rtl1839. Now that line includes the tekram card driver as well. I wonder if that's correct or necessary. A line for the rtl1839 card appears twice on boot up, but I'm not getting the "already loaded that module" message that I had before. Maybe I'll find some time this weekend to sit down and go through the logs, and do some research and see if I can figure out and fix some of these things. Or, I could re-install 7.0 for the third time... Thanks for your comments. Stan Koper ----- Original Message ----- From: John Karns To: Stan Koper Cc: cll muzh ; Samy Elashmawy ; SuSE Linux Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 4:22 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] 7.1 Won't Install, and Worse Are you using a terminator on the SCSI bus? The Seagate drive is 50 pin or 68? If it's an ultra SCSI device, I'd receommend using an active terminator. If you're not using any termination, that could well be the problem. Otherwise the drive or controller may have a problem. I've been using SCSI for a several years and never had any problems. This sounds like a possible termination issue. On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Stan Koper said:
John and Samy,
The question of whether a low-level format is necessary or not is sort of moot for me, at the moment. I went back and did a separate low-level format and verify, no errors. I didn't really think there were.
So then I inserted the 7.1 personal bootdisk in the floppy drive, it started up, went to Yast 2, after a couple of steps it told me that there was no hard drive (yes, the tekram card was in and the SCSI bios was installed), and dumped me to Yast1. I went through the autoprobe, put in the modules disk per instructions, it located the tekram SCSI card, and the Realtek NIC (but not the 3com 3C509). After that I selected installation, and there it hung. Just like it did before all of this low-level formatting, etc.
Right now the 6.4/IDE system is up and running. I will go back and try to install 7.0 on the SCSI disk one more time, and then find some other use for the 7.1 package. This really looks like the end of the line for SuSE and me.
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