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 -----
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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
John
Karns
jkarns@csd.net
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