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Trantor controller problems (Newbie)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rory Macdonald)
Tue Jul 11 20:50:14 1995
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 12:36:25 +0000
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: rory.macdonald@paisley.ac.uk (Rory Macdonald)
Hi,
I'm trying to install Linux on my pc at work. The machine is about 4 years
old and our support staff lost the docs for the machine, and the supplier
didn't keep good records 'back then'.
From opening things up I see I have...
a Seagate ST-41200N SCSI HD (1.2Gb)
what appears to be a Trantor SCSI controller card (a T100 possibly??)
a Pro Audio PAS16 SCSI sound card
a Toshiba internal CD
an SMC 8000 comms card
3.5 and 5.25 floppies
I have the 1.2.8 boot and root disks from the Slackware distribution (taken
from Sunsite last week).
When booting without a command line at the boot: prompt there is no check
carried out for partitions, and everything else seems to be recognised ok.
Continuing to feed in the root disk allows me to log in as root, but when I
run fdisk I get 'cannot open sda'
Ok, so it can't 'see' my hard drive properly. I then got hold of the drive
geometry for the Seagate (c=1931, h=31, s=71) and provided these at the
boot: prompt during the LILO floppy bootup. A check is started this time for
the partitions but starts looking for hda returning a message along the lines of
DRDY error status 0xff {busy} ... a pause of some 5-6 seconds, then ...
ide0: do_ide_reset : timed-out, status=0xff
unable to read partition table of device 0300
Now, I'm clearly no SCSI HD expert, but from all the docs and HOWTOs I've
read I can't get a decent picture in my mind as to what I have to do rectify
what seems to a very small problem.
Can anyone please help? I will provide any other info required if you tell
me what that may be.
After 10 days of trying, I hope to have this solved sooner than later.
Many many thanks in advance to anyone with expertise willing to point me in
the right direction :)
Regards
Rory
