From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FEpSD-0004wC-WA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:10:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k22FAZgv005384; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 15:10:35 GMT Received: from dingaan.aircom.co.za (dingaan.aircom.co.za [196.46.113.84]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k22FAWVY007105 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 15:10:34 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dingaan.aircom.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by dingaan.aircom.co.za (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k22FAU33029840 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 17:10:31 +0200 Message-ID: <44070AE4.2070207@computer.org> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:10:28 +0200 From: Andrew Gaylard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051101 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] alpha newbie question References: <20060302100338.GA16179@kloeri> <4406CBAE.3010408@computer.org> <0285EF4A-EAFB-4A64-AF55-9128ABA8C7E5@allmail.net> <4406F321.90902@computer.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c391e49e-8d5b-4026-a7bf-da9d339f54ea X-Archives-Hash: 53e3bc916a9d68afe90615fab849d2bb Nick Smith wrote: >so what is the next step since dmesg doesnt show the drives? im just >the ID's are correct and not conficting. the machine bios does see >the drives. i havnt figured out a way to get into the card bios yet, >on an intel machine you have the option of hitting F6, nothing like >that shows on the Alpha machine.... > > This sounds like a SCSI problem. You'll have to check IDs, cabling, termination, host adapter firmware, the whole lot. Try connecting one drive at a time and see what the kernel displays. I've seen a faulty SCSI device prevent the whole chain from working. I doubt that it's a kernel problem, since one drive is detected. If *no* drives were detected, then I'd suspect the kernel. -- gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org mailing list