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>When I rebooted this time, MILO failed to access the SCSI devices at all.
When I boot the machine it takes about 5 minutes for the ARC firmware to
initialise the drivers. Then the SCSI controller gets the OK.
>I have two SCSI devices, an HP hard drive, and a NEC CD-ROM. I have
>tested the machine with either or oth of the devices disconnected from the
>SCSI controller, and tried out a different SCSI cable as well.
I have tried 2 different drives (Toshiba CDROM and Digital RZ24M HD), 3
different cables, and even a single cable with just a termination block.
> scsi-ncr53c7,8xx : at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0
> scsi-ncr53c7,8xx : NCR53c810 at memory 0x9000000, io 0x10000, irq 11
> scsi0 : using io mapped access
>
>Then freezes.
I get the same thing, as soon as MILO does anything to start the drivers
it hangs at the same place.
>I have removed all other cards and devices from the
>machine; currently there is only a #9 GXE PCI card and the floppy drive
>connected. I have tried with and without a hard drive connected to the
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>is to remove the PCI video card and connect something to the serial port
>and boot and see if that is the problem, but it has been running fine for
>weeks with the card before this, so it seems doubtful.
I have also tried it without cards/drives, even without a video card (a
plain ISA VGA card), same thing. Not having a machine to connect to the
COM port, I just let it boot, and after 5 minutes the floppy lights up.
>I really hope it is not the motherboard... :/
I can only conclude we have the same problem, and it seems to be the
MB SCSI controller :(
I have reported this fault, I'll let you know if I hear anything.
regards,
Conor McCarthy.