I thought I'd seen and heard most things in the computer business, but now I'm stumped.. I installed a SuSE 10.1 x86_64 on a couple of SCSI disks configured as a mirror set in software on an Adaptec 2940UW adapter.. After finalized install and boot, after a while the DISKS emitted beeps! 2 short beeps, a couple of seconds silence, then 2 short beeps and on it goes. The system is hung dead hard and the only way out is the reset button. Any ideas on this? Anders
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 09:37, Anders Norrbring wrote:
I thought I'd seen and heard most things in the computer business, but now I'm stumped..
I installed a SuSE 10.1 x86_64 on a couple of SCSI disks configured as a mirror set in software on an Adaptec 2940UW adapter..
After finalized install and boot, after a while the DISKS emitted beeps! 2 short beeps, a couple of seconds silence, then 2 short beeps and on it goes. The system is hung dead hard and the only way out is the reset button.
Any ideas on this?
Anders
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Sounds like a driver problem..? Of some obscure reason, the disk makes a very short and fast track-to-track seek/r/w or whatever, and thus gets a resonantion in the arm/heads that sounds like a beep. I had a similar problem with two 15.000 rpm SCSI180 drives that chirped in a particular machine, but not in others. (Still haven't resolved that, as the drives went into another RAID set) Does the drives still emit sound on the same box under another OS. (Either completely different, or under a lower Linux..) -- /Rikard ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- email : rikard.j@rikjoh.com web : http://www.rikjoh.com mob: : +46 (0)763 19 76 25 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >
Rikard Johnels skrev:
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 09:37, Anders Norrbring wrote:
I thought I'd seen and heard most things in the computer business, but now I'm stumped..
I installed a SuSE 10.1 x86_64 on a couple of SCSI disks configured as a mirror set in software on an Adaptec 2940UW adapter..
After finalized install and boot, after a while the DISKS emitted beeps! 2 short beeps, a couple of seconds silence, then 2 short beeps and on it goes. The system is hung dead hard and the only way out is the reset button.
Any ideas on this?
Anders
Sounds like a driver problem..? Of some obscure reason, the disk makes a very short and fast track-to-track seek/r/w or whatever, and thus gets a resonantion in the arm/heads that sounds like a beep. I had a similar problem with two 15.000 rpm SCSI180 drives that chirped in a particular machine, but not in others. (Still haven't resolved that, as the drives went into another RAID set)
Does the drives still emit sound on the same box under another OS. (Either completely different, or under a lower Linux..)
Nope, it's not the actuators in the disks, they really DO beep! Immideately after the beeps, the actuators "flicks" and makes a completely different sound while doing it. Also, the alarm LEDs on both drives blinks at about 2Hz. I've never seen or heard this before on any system.. These drives worked fine when doing a test installation on the same platform, same OS just yesterday. My guess is a cable problem, I'll try swap that out, but I'm still really surprised by the beeping drives.... :) Anders.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-05-16 at 09:52 +0200, Anders Norrbring wrote:
Nope, it's not the actuators in the disks, they really DO beep! Immideately after the beeps, the actuators "flicks" and makes a completely different sound while doing it. Also, the alarm LEDs on both drives blinks at about 2Hz.
I've never seen or heard this before on any system.. These drives worked fine
Have a look at their documentation, probably at the maker web site. It must be mentioned. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEaaTatTMYHG2NR9URAlI2AJ4+FGn7ggpIq0AJIaczmSen2io3mwCcC2tu B8LHMeGu3+PZ0klEXWvr8CM= =8qUP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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