Um... RAID controller/drive problem?

[fred]

fred :

Which disk drive? Connected internally or externally?

Seagate Cheetah 146Gb internal

Which SCSI controller?

Adaptec 39320 SCSI RAID controller

Generally error messages should not be ignored.

39320 B at slot 02, 01:0a:01 - SCSI controller configuration error: 02

Unaccessible or unreadable? How do you launch the
utilities that should check the drive (floppy,
cdrom, another disk drive)? Which utilities? On
what operating system?

Unreadable. Fsck fails to read every single part of the drive. Has to be
formatted with gparted or BIOS. I'm using linux.

How do you do this, if the drive can not be read
(accessed)? In another system? Via the controllers
BIOS (then the drive can actually be read/accessed)?


If you want a qualified answer you should at least
post info on your:

- Motherboard and BIOS,

intel server board STL2 http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/STL2/
Phoenix BIOS 4.0 release 6
STL20.86B.0022.P01.0105011814
STL2 BIOS release 1.8

- SCSI controller and BIOS/firmware,

as above... with BIOS v4.30.4S5

- Cable(s)/backplane(s),
- Termination,

3 connector u320 compliant ribbon cable (68 pin) - 1 connector to adapter, 1
unconnected in middle, 1 connect to drive, and 1 terminator (SCSI LVD/SE
Ultra2/Ulta160/Ultra3) on end of cable near drive.

- SCSI drives attached internally (and externally),

Just the one drive as above.

- Other devices on the system,

2x 1Ghz Pentium III CPUs
Video card Nvidia GeForce MX4000 64Mb PCI
A CD-ROM and a DVD-ROM connected to the IDE
A 3.5" floppy drive
A 550W power supply

- System description (I do like dmesg outputs),

Can't at the moment. No system currently installed.

- Boot drive,

As above.

- Operating system,

When there is an OS installed - Linux Ubuntu Edgy Eft (whatever the current
version and kernal is at the time.)

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

NEVER EVER buy or attempt to use any Adaptec SCSI RAID products as they are
garbage. You need a good entry level LSI MegaRAID SCSI 320-2X (532)
Controller. LSI MegaRAID controllers are very inexpensive and highly reliable.

Your choice of the Seagate Cheetah is a very smart one. Use no other drive than Seagate Cheetah.

So good in fact that they are the *ONLY* drives causing problems with Adaptec controllers:
http://adaptec-tic.adaptec.com/cgi-bin/adaptec_tic.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=10047

like with the ST3146807

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Ah, you're from Australia. That explains the lot.
I'll leave you in the very capable hands of Rita the Troll and the Swiss babbblebot that never sleeps and has one brainfar(c)t after
another.
You deserve them fully.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Nope, and not only because of that rather obvious typo either.

And in previous months for several years now.

Wota big surprise with that obvious typo.

Right, so you obviously didn't bother to read the A.S.K. FAQ links that I gave you.
One of which was :
http://adaptec-tic.adaptec.com/cgi-bin/adaptec_tic.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=11116

Does that number at the end look slightly familiar now?

Fred, do yourself a favor and take what Folk says with a grain of salt.

If you Google his past posts you'll notice he has a track record of being a
troublemaker and is the official group idiot.

Whereas Rita Bigotowitz is a fully respected member of csiphs.

Which apparently is *nothing* and obviously you fully intend to keep it that way.

Obvious lie.

An *Adaptec* dual channel Ultra160 controller, perfectly
suitable for a single Ultra320 drive, or even 4 of them.

Yes, Intel has a known PCI bridge conflict with this card.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...e" conflict&safe=off&qt_s=Search&sa=N&tab=gw

No such evidence of that here.

Nor here:
http://adaptec-tic.adaptec.com/cgi-..._new_search=1&p_search_type=answers.search_nl

Nor here:
http://mysearch.intel.com/corporate...US&q=39320&searchsubmit.x=22&searchsubmit.y=4

This is a *KNOWN* problem

Similar to: Rita is a *KNOWN* troll?

in the industry.

Which the Rita troll is obviously privy to and everyone else -including Acraptec- is not.

Btw, if it actually knew it's stuff and this bridge problem were actually to be true
then it would have advised you to look at the first number in "01:0a:01" of that
error message, which is the SCSI bus number.
Usually Bus #01 means that it is possibly behind a PCI to PCI bridge.
It can also merely mean that Intel just decided to mark the northbridge connected 64-
bit 66 MHz PCI bus as bus #01 and that there is no PCI to PCI bridge involved at all.
These are standard wide PCI slots, not PCI-X. There is no bridge to seperate them.

*If* it actually knew it's stuff about Intel server boards it would have advised you
to put the SCSI adapter in one of the 32-bit slots since the 2 64-bit slots are on
the same bus so changing between those has no effect.

The 32-bit 33 MHz PCI bus is connected to the Southbridge.
The STL2 manual doesn't show a PCI to PCI bridge involved there.

*IF*, *if* that card actually has a problem -as the troll alleges and for which there
is no evidence- with being on PCI bus #1 then you would be looking for a slot that
changes that first number "01" in 01:0a:01, to double zero.

*IF* there is a problem with that card it's likely not to do with PCI to PCI bridges
at all but with the number 01 (or higher) instead of 00. A simple BIOS upgrade would
fix that.

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rita_=C4_Berkowitz?=]

So good in fact that they are the *ONLY* drives causing problems with
Adaptec controllers:
http://adaptec-tic.adaptec.com/cgi-bin/adaptec_tic.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=10047

like with the ST3146807

We haven't had any problems with the scores of them out in the field. Is
there something we all should be aware of? Oh, I forgot that you only
parrot what you find on Google instead of actually working with the hardware
you try to convince people you have a clue about. Get out and get a life.







Rita

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rita_=C4_Berkowitz?=]

Ah, you're from Australia. That explains the lot.
I'll leave you in the very capable hands of Rita the Troll and the
Swiss babbblebot that never sleeps and has one brainfar(c)t after
another. You deserve them fully.

You must be a sad little man that you would attack a person coming into this
group with a genuine problem and asking for help. Instead of offering him
constructive advice you go into your traditional attack mode and yet again
prove to everyone out here what your true motives are. We all know your
purpose is to troll and be disruptive. I think you owe Fred an apology.






Rita

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rita_=C4_Berkowitz?=]

Whereas Rita Bigotowitz is a fully respected member of csiphs.

Yes I am. I was very instrumental in cleaning up this group and spanking
the trolls. It seems you got your corncob lodged in an orifice that is
reserved for your head.

Which apparently is *nothing* and obviously you fully intend to keep
it that way.

Yep, insult the original poster in your usual childish ways you so often
demonstrate.

Obvious lie.

Keep throwing a tantrum and stomp your feet maybe someone will pay attention
to you.

An *Adaptec* dual channel Ultra160 controller, perfectly
suitable for a single Ultra320 drive, or even 4 of them.

Holy Christ! That corncob must have done some good? This is the first
smart thing you said in six years.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...e" conflict&safe=off&qt_s=Search&sa=N&tab=gw

No such evidence of that here.

Keep doing what you're good at, Googling. Try a little hands on experience
and maybe you'll catch something that resembles a clue. I find it odd that
you would get so mad and bitter when, again, I have given you yet another
opportunity to make a fool of yourself.






Rita

 

[Rod Speed]

Folkert Rienstra wrote

Yes I am.

Just another of your pathetic little drug crazed deviate fantasys.

I was very instrumental in cleaning up this group

Just another of your pathetic little drug crazed deviate fantasys.

and spanking the trolls.

Just another of your pathetic little drug crazed deviate fantasys.

It seems you got your corncob lodged in an orifice that is reserved for your head.

Just another of your pathetic little drug crazed deviate fantasys.

 

[chrisv]

Yes I am.

LOL

Idiot.

 

[Michael Giegerich]

fred :

Seagate Cheetah 146Gb internal


Adaptec 39320 SCSI RAID controller


39320 B at slot 02, 01:0a:01 - SCSI controller configuration error: 02


Unreadable. Fsck fails to read every single part of the drive. Has to be
formatted with gparted or BIOS. I'm using linux.

That's odd.

On FreeBSD, fsck runs after boot (and only if the
system went down unclean, i.e. crashed), just be-
fore getty gets spawned (login appears).
Meaning, the drive can not be unreadable, else the
system wouldn't boot and not reach fsck.

Does your system behaves completely normal before
a fsck becomes suddenly impossible?

Does your system boot up normally until fsck be-
comes impossible?

Did you try to skip fsck? Do you get a login screen
then?