On 24/10/2018 15:12, Paul Groves wrote:

Hi all. anyone come across this before?

I have the following devices connected to the internal SCSI bus:

Adaptec ASC-29320ALP U320 SCSI card. (Termination is on). HP Storageworks Ultrium 448 HP Sotrageworks Ultrium 1760 Built-in Terminator on cable

When the server boots the Adaptec BIOS comes up first and scans the SCSI IDs. The problem is, whichever tape drive is the first ID on the SCSI bus.

The scanning for IDs gets stuck on this drive for a while, about 2-3 minutes and the tray that takes the tape into the drive goes click click click for about a minute with the drives Ready LED flashing.

Eventually it stops flashing and clicking and the SCSI card continues to scan IDs without a problem. When it gets to the second tape drive and so on it doesn't make it go click click flash and wait for ages.

If I swap the SCSI ID jumpers over the problem also swaps. As I said it is whatever the lowest SCSI ID number is.

Any clue what this might be?

When the server boots the tape drives both work fine.

Though I should post this here too. Thanks to Steve from the Kent mailing list for the solution. The problem was caused by the SCSI card trying to boot the first available device. Seeing as I have no SCSI Hard Disks and I am only using tape drives, this is prevented by disabling I13 support in the SCSI card's BIOS. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org