[TriLUG] LVD and SE SCSI question (2nd update)

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Fri Aug 2 01:15:21 EDT 2002


On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 01:05, Jon Carnes wrote:
> What type of Machine/motherboard are you putting it in?  (Dell 440 by any 
> chance)...

Tyan Tiger, I believe.  It's got 2 PIII 800's in it.  I don't think
it's Dell.  It was donated by the Center for the Public Domain.
 
> If you power the system off for a minute then turn it on, does it come up 
> fine?

Actually, that's why I'm posting again.  After posting my previous
post, I was going to bed and thought "what the frell, I'll try it 
again."  Well, what do you know, it came up this time.  I had to
go through a few cycles of rebooting because I had removed the
mylex raid controller and it couldn't find the disks it was 
expecting (extra disks with no system on it), but it came up fine?!?

So, I don't know what's happening.

> Could it be the Power supply dying and not providing enough power to boot 
> with all those drives attached?  (you could set the boot time on the drives 
> so they come up staggard...)

Well, this machine has dual power supplies in it and both
are connected (the power wires come out as if it were one
power supply).  It's possible one of the power supplies might
be bad, but I'm not sure how I'd check.  How do you go about
setting the boot time on the drives?

Thanks much,
Tanner (who is *really* going to bed now).
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